Irgh, I got lost while reading this thread. Question, wasn't the language called transcript?
xTalk is not a language is a set of common characteristics shared by HyperTalk, MetaTalk, SuperTalk and friends... if xTalk was a language then find me a xTalk interpreter, compiler. There's no such thing. xTalk was an idea to bring together all similar things and find a common ground, like they did with common lisp (Remember the joke about practical common lisp being as practical and common as the holy roman empire was holy and an empire...) and by the way, transcript or metatalk or revolution or whichever we call it today, is as turing complete as C, Lisp, Smalltalk and others, so please don't tell me that as a language it fails somewhere because it does not. Now if you want to talk about spread and commonness of Runtime Revolution product in comparison of other languages, then don't push the discussion towards language taxonomy or semantics/syntax because it does not make sense! You can complain about lack of widgets and libraries. You can complain about iPhone, Flash, Amiga, RISC PC, Toaster support (my pet peeve is BSD support) You can complain about it being so easy that film school graduates can code professional apps with no formal CS education You can complain about not being able to create your own Operating System with Revolution But you simply can't say that the scripting language (syntax + semantics) doesn't compare with C, APL, Whatever... because that simply ain't true. Yes we can code a full blown OS with C, we can revolutionize the world with SmallTalk, we can rover around mars with Lisp but it took me 2 months to create a full blown network preferences application in C/C++ for Haiku (BeOS like system), the same work would take a week maximum with Revolution (and this include building the C external for the I/O network card stuff). So how do we measure the success of a language? How do we compare them? The answer is simple: We Don't!!! To each their own, my uncle who's a naval engineer still using Fortran 77, some masochi^H^H^H^H^H^H coders still use PERL and will not trade it for anything. I am fond of Lisp and wish I they sold plush parentheses so I could put them on my office desk. The thing is, people use what they know and for them that is the best option. Saying that Revolution doesn't rank as well as $LANGUAGE$ doesn't mean anything. Ask Chipp, Trevor or Richard about deploying solutions in Rev instead of C... You might get the impression that C doesn't rank as well as Revolution, which would also be false, since both are turing complete and very competent at their own niche, Revolution being in the business empowering the developers with an sane language easy to learn and maintain and C being in the business of leaking memory^H^H^H^H low level stuff. all languages are fine... _______________________________________________ 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