Bridger Maxwell wrote:
Hey,
I was just getting the Revolution update and I happened to notice that on
one of the little info screens it displays as it installs it says, "You
don't have to have a degree in programming to develop in Revolution.
Revolution uses an easy to understand English-based language also called
Revolution." That sounds pretty official that the language is no longer
called "Transcipt" anymore by the people at Runrev. (Realize that I was
paraphrasing a little except for the sentence "language also called
Revolution" because I don't have a photographic memory).
TTFN
Bridger
Oh it's official all right, but the sentence you quote serves to
highlight the linguistic folly of the move. "The boards are joined
together using a tool called 'hammer' which drives in metal pins also
called 'hammer'".
I recall that in the 1990's Apple decided that it would discourage
customers from calling their computers "Mac" or "Macintosh" and instead
dictated that they should in future be referred to as "Apple Macintosh"
or "AppleMac". This was actually adopted by a minority of users, and is
occasionally still seen today. I regard it as evidence of the date at
which those people started using the platform.
Apple has moved on though. The marketing argument was no doubt sound on
its own terms, but why waste your energy pushing a pea uphill with a
pointed stick?
Around here, when town planners build a new open space, they usually
build footpaths around the periphery of the grassy area, it looks nice
on the renderings and models probably. To the planners' surprise, people
end up walking across the grass, because that is the shortest route
between the access points. This wears a track across the grass. Sooner
or later, the town council gives in and paves the natural track.
As an on-and-off-musician, with some history of naming bands as well as
creative projects in general, I would say that a name people are
unembarrassed to include in conversation is many times more valuable
than a name that makes people feel silly or awkward when they say it.
how *do* you pronounce "postgres"?
Martin Baxter
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