Peter Alcibiades wrote: "Rev is cross platform and on any old hardware"
Really? Must try it on an Iyonix running RISC OS 5! I don't know about Symbian OS . . . Any OLD hardware ??? Well, it cannot spit a standalone out for the Amiga I have (admittedly rotting in the attic in Scotland), nor many of the other pieces of old but not done-for stuff lying around schools just waiting to be used for some good. As the 'developed world' keeps being 'charitable' and dumping old machines on schools in supposedly less-developed countries this is not entirely as daft as it seems. Ooh; does Runtime Revolution produce standalones that will run on the $100 laptop ? Now I know that RR's argument is that to develop for RISC OS and so forth is not commercially viable (and they are, probably, right). However, consider the following: While PCs running RISC OS are a serious case of niche market, a vast number of embedded systems run RISC OS and use ARM processors. Therefore is might behoove some interested parties to look into the possibilities both of developing translators to turn RR code into code for "funny machines" with "funny operating systems", and vice versa. My motivation is pretty near ground zero as I work with Macs and Ubuntu . . . mind you, if somebody were to "lob" me a RISC OS PC and a jolly good contract I would probably sit up and take notice very quickly indeed! I am fairly well locked into RR; however I have found that I can move to most O-O languages when the need arises - what I learnt in the past with HC and happy line-number languages have left me with sufficient transferable skills as to allow me to adapt fairly quickly. I would suspect that that is true of most users of RR. If you wish, you are free to read this as Richmond going through one of his bl**dy-minded patches; alternatively you could see that the old HC article might be making a point that is still relevant today. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! For Good helps you make a difference http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution