Jon wrote:
I envy those of you who use Rev all of the time. For the rest of us,
it continues to be a very frustrating experience.
How many other multi-platform programming language have your learned,
and how much less time did they take to master?
> My ONLY point was that I was unable to find this simple item in the
> Help.
I agree; it's as hard to find in Rev's help as it is in the world's most
popular IDE, VB. When RunRev makes a token entry for that they'll have
one up on the biggest software vendor in history. :)
If participating in a discussion group to get near-instant assistance is
frustrating, there's hope:
When I was first transitioning to Transcript (back then it was called
MetaTalk) from a background of mostly SuperTalk and a little C and
Pascal (and all of it only on Mac), I whinged all over the discussion
list about how this was wrong and that was wrong and why couldn't they
just do it like it's done in HyperCard and why is the whole thing just
stupid!
Fortunately, RunRev's Kevin Miller and MetaCard Corp's Scott Raney had
far more patience than I. In each case where I was certain the language
was stupid they paitently walked me through how it got that way, how
much its platform-independent nature (and arguably superior object
model) sometimes meant I had to learn new ways of doing things.
In every case they were able to turn my tirade into a productive
learning experience. (Except in the case of the destroyStack token,
which I still maintain is an unnecessarily frightening choice of
terminology for something that's really quite benign <g>).
If there's any reason I feel so supportive about the language today,
it's because I came to it kicking and screaming.
Having once wore the crown if King Whinger, I can tell you from
firsthand experience that it's quite possible to learn the language
well, and that it went a little faster once I got past the whingeing.
You needn't learn the language as slowly as I did. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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