Well, Dan (et al.), I suppose that I personally don't give a flying flaming figurative fig's whatever body-part who calls what what, but...
It really would be nice if RunRev could pick a few names and STICK WITH THEM!!! I mean, honest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] every term I teach the course, I don't know WHAT they call the bottom-line product, HOW much the [EMAIL PROTECTED] it costs, what the $(*&*# it can and cannot do and how the (*C&(N)I'm supposed to refer to the )#*$ thing just to order it. Insert expletives and profanities of choice. Doubly so if you are working with a certified FrankenLab... Running a certified sooo yesterday OS like Mac OS 9... I mean, YIKESS!!! This semester alone I sought to purchase DC 10-pack licenses for my whining, etc., students... only to collect funds to discover DC no longer exists... because Media will be... someday,... maybe anyday... maybe not... [EMAIL PROTECTED] only knows when when...and the file format's changed... and, holy [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I supposed to tell them now, a good two months after I've collected funds...? Makes me even nuttier than I already am. And I KNOW I'm certifiable. But I LIKE Rev...! MIND YOU, RunRev has been MORE THAN GENEROUS in trying to help me/us... I mean, believe it or not, *I* understand... but I do worry about the perception dropped perhaps inadvertently upon my clueless newbies... Judy On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Dan Shafer wrote: > You know, I reacted a bit negatively at first as well. Overnight, I began to > think about it a bit more (I clearly need to get out more.) > > Visual Basic is the name of the IDE and the language. Same with RealBASIC. > > Then there's Borland's Delphi, which is a development environment for Object > Pascal. Hmmm. As I thought about that exception (and others that then popped > into memory), I think I get this differentiation. Giving the language and > its IDE the same name is a strong way of branding the underlyng > product/technology. When you layer something on top of a language that's > already in popular use, you generally add some value and then you need to > brand, not the underlying language (e.g., Pascal) but your enhancements to > it. So you name it something else (e.g., Delphi). > > Now it makes better sense to me. Not that it had to. But I'm glad it does. _______________________________________________ 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