Robert,
I guess I'm just resistant to change because I'm still not that happy
about it. But after a nights sleep I am more willing to see how it
plays out for the long road. There are a lot of changes happening
lately so I assume they have a plan and are sticking to it. I guess
that's good.
Tom
On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
Lynn
What is the thinking behind this? I am a little put off by the
change. Hypercard had hypertalk, supercard had supertalk, director
had lingo and Revolution had Transcript. I love the name transcript.
My initial reaction was the same, but after sleeping on this, I
concluded that the change is not so significant. I mean it is okay
to drop the differentiation since the coding is an integral part of
using the IDE. It was different with HyperCard since it clearly
delineated different operation modes, with scripting being the
highest level, and it was possible to lock users out of scripting
while still letting them modify the stacks.
On the other hand, what is now the programming language of
MetaCard? It used to be MetaTalk. Then we started saying Transcript
for simplicity, although technically not quite correct since all
the revXxxx thingies were not available there while implicitly part
of Transcript. I guess I have to say now I program in Revolution
using MetaCard IDE. Maybe it would be the right time to have
FlipsIDE (what ever happened to it btw?), so IDEs can be switched
like skins sort of and further eliminate the distinction of
language flavors.
Robert
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