Would you have written it in time? was Re: mission critical apps

2004-02-09 Thread Ian Wood
Richard Gaskin wrote: How many times does an IT request get delivered long after it was useful? How many in-house apps get deployed but never used because it's hard to make great interfaces quickly in most other tools? How many projects are over budget? How many programs have you all written q

Re: Would you have written it in time? was Re: mission critical apps

2004-02-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:11 AM, Ian Wood wrote: How many programs have you all written quickly in Revolution that would have taken much too long with another tool/language? Like I said to Chipp: Don't appeal to programmer productivity. I already know runrev is the most productive tool for me. That's

Re: Would you have written it in time? was Re: mission critical apps

2004-02-09 Thread Rob Cozens
I asked: "How are you going to sell xtalks in a corporate environment where reliability and correctness is _more important than programmer productivity_ ?" Alex, You're probably not; so those corporate environments, which never have & never will embrace cutting-edge technology until it is passe

Re: Would you have written it in time? was Re: mission critical apps

2004-02-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: You are quite welcome to deal with corporate idiots such as these, Alex, but let's not drag Transcript down to curry favor with no-nothings. Sounds like politics to me. I am raising a hypothetical question. Suppose you were trying to bring xtalk apps

Re: Would you have written it in time? was Re: mission critical apps

2004-02-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Alex Rice wrote: I know- but for someone who didn't cut their teeth with metacard, and all they have experienced is the runrev IDE, then it's blind faith that the engine is as bulletproof as it's reputed to be. Sorry "cut their teeth" is probably a poor expression to

Re: Would you have written it in time? was Re: mission critical apps

2004-02-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rob Cozens wrote: > And, by the way, reliability is not an issue from my perspective. > How long has the underlying MetaCard engine been on the market? Rev's VM has been field-tested for more than 13 years. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___