RunRev
Graham Samuel
livfoss at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Dec 3 03:51:39 EST 2003
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:13:43 +0100, jbv <jbv.silences at Club-Internet.fr> wrote:
>
> > > I can understand for Java, but why stay away from C ?
>> >
>> > Just curious,
>> > JB
>> >
>>
>> because its scary
>
>Are you sure ?
>
>IMHO, C compilers (Code Warrior, Visual C...) are scary...
>
>But not C, nor assembler.
>
>Futhermore, Rev is scary, especially when you're used to the
>"vintage" MetaCard IDE... ;-) just kidding of course...
My answer is, "because it's not Transcript". All these things have a
learning curve, but IMHO x-talk languages have a much shorter curve,
and thereafter productivity for all but a few highly technical tasks
(many of them platform-dependent anyway) is far higher. I don't have
the time or the facilities to measure this objectively (setting up a
fair test would certainly be a tad complicated - might make a good
Masters' dissertation), but I would take bets on reasonable odds that
'normal' cross-platform application development (from conception to
delivery) is far faster using Transcript than it is using C.
My 2 Eurocents
Graham
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