If we're doing taxonomy of programming languages, then I'd say that
Revolution is to xTalk as C is to Algol. (if we're talking about
popularity, there's no comparison).
I also think the religious metaphor is a good joke that seems to have
been stretched beyond it's breaking point...
Best,
Mark
On 21 Dec 2008, at 02:57, Randall Reetz wrote:
I think all if you have drank a bit too much of the rev coolaid.
This dicussion was about Languages with a capital "L". Comparing
rev on the same level with C is like comparing Islam with sarah
palin's local prayer house. Lets be reasonable please.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Björnke von Gierke" <[email protected]>
To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]>
Sent: 12/20/2008 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...
On 20 Dec 2008, at 04:41, Randall Reetz wrote:
I wish people would use the term xtalk when refering to this
language its structure and lexicon both come intact from hypercard
and smalltalk before that. Revenue is a great integration synthesis
of xtalk and a cross platform runtime engines, but the language is
xtalk all the way in. Seems only fair. No?
No. Time for car analogies (Noooo!!!):
If someone comes to the car salesman, and says "I'd want to buy a
Lexus". Would you argue he'd be better off to say "I'd want to buy any
car"?
Xtalk is a loose description of types of languages, which includes
hypercard as well as Rev. Of course the analogy will break down
quickly if you ask 10 xtalk followers whether applescript is an xtalk
language or not.
Describing stuff is always hard, especially with the name trinity of
RunRev marketing, but using xtalk for just one language will probably
garner you some internet hate :)
Have Fun
Björnke
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