We just came back from a two-day NewsTrain conference for journalists,
put on by Associated Press and the Knight foundation. We showed our
Hinduism Today Digital Edition to a few people, one of whom is the
"critically acclaimed, award winning web developer" Rob Curley (see
robcurley.com) who has helped produce the
"best news sites on the net" web sites. (right, you may never have heard
of him... this is in journalism--check out his latest
production www.naplesnews.com... it's incredible, even if the content is
"pop-local" click things under the dot.cool section)
This man hired away some of Google's top engineers to join his IT
team... he pays each one of back end IT team way up in the 6 figures,
and any intern (he's big on $8/per hour "internology") lucky enough to
work with him will leave his team and get 6 figures.
OK, so, we have this 2 minute window to talk with him about what we do
while he boots up Powerpoint on his 17" Macbook Pro. His first question
was: "Hmmm, interesting, what is that coded in?" he's a super geek and
didn't care about content--he wanted to know the technology behind it.
I said "Revolution" He said "Hmm never heard of Revolution. Oops gotta
go... I'm up next...."
I don't think I should to have said "coded in transcipt" at that moment.
Sivakatirswami
Dar Scott wrote:
On Aug 10, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
As a language junkie I'd say xTalks including Transcript are easily
and by
far the most English-like programming languages on the planet.
I was fortunate to be part of the team for Savvy which predated
HyperTalk and shared many of the same commands. That was also before
GUI and mouse, at least before we understood them. Almost every
HyperTalk command that was not GUI related was in Savvy. Savvy used a
form based script editor built around English syntax, and being of
poor memory, I miss that. I need a hint once in a while. Blanks
unfolded as parameters were needed. But, I don't think we can say
Savvy is on the planet anymore. Even so, my mother-in-law still uses
the bookkeeping package I made long ago and some folks are using
emulators to still run Savvy. I think the current owners have lost
the source.
And, to answer your opening question, Runtime Revolution is trying
hard to
get us to call the language Revolution. I'm resisting and I suspect
lots of
other folks are as well. I consider that a silly and ill-advised
terminology
change. But in their official literature, it's now Revolution which you
program in...er...Revolution.
I can understand both sides of this. When I used LabView people
looked at me funny when I said I programmed in G, so I simply said I
programmed in LabView. I wonder if in the olden days people would say
they programmed in HyperCard to avoid confusion.
I have had trouble explaining Transcript to customers, so now say
Revolution.
Dar Scott
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