Derek Huby wrote: > Also, in some obscure way, Revolution can do some useful stuff in this > world...
And maybe not so obscure. Given the speed and flexibility of the engine, C could be relegated for operating systems and only core routines of applications. A smart large company could save significant costs by building something like, say, GoLive by using Rev to handle 90% of the UI and then hooking into the window content region with an external for computationally-intensive stuff like GoLive's Layout mode display. But even just using native Transcript can deliver a significant subset of applications that are currently built with C at an exponentially greater cost. My MetaCard-based WebMerge application has been mistaken for being C++-based more than once. Maybe that's not that far out of line, given that in such a high-level tool your scripts are only a small part of what's going on, with most of the action taking place in highly-optimized C++ in the engine. > So, I bought a book. I've just received 'Unix for Mac OS X', a 'Visual > Quickpro Guide' by Matisse Enzer, published by Peachpit press. The contents > look hopeful, and I'm quite optimistic that in 520 pages time I might > actually understand some of the things that the Unix experts are writing > about. Any other Unix-naïve (or is that Unix-innocent ?) OS X users of > Revolution might consider giving it a look. (I own no shares in the > publishers!) Me neither, but I've been impressed with the instructional design of the Visual Quick Pro series for some years, and have found them a greay way to get a quick grok. Didn't know about the "Uix for Mac OS X" book -- thanks for posting that. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution