4 and a bit mice......

[Ken Ray]

> "In my experience, software reviewers are writers, not developers,
> and their reviews are rarely done in a depth that would qualify them
> to proclaim any real knowledge or understanding of the product they
> review."

Sorry, Rob, I have to disagree here.... the person who wrote the review is
Keith Martin, and he has been using SuperCard and HyperCard for years (he is
very active on the SuperCard list). So he doesn't qualify for the
"writer-only" issue of which you speak. If anything, he may be a bit
SuperCard-biased, although other than a couple of mentions of SuperCard, he
doesn't seem to be acting in a biased way.

> Now a 4-page spread with lots of juicy pix of a prog. in
> development would have said a lot more than MacUser's
> rather stuffy text.  If RR is, as MacUser claims,
> programming for the non-geeky; as we all know it is
> (honestly, I'm not geeky) then it should have been backed
> up with images of drag-and-drop and object programming.
> Reading the article I felt rather sad because it
> singularly failed to give an impression of the passion one
> could rapidly feel when 'fooling around' with RR.

How often do you get to see a "4-page spread with lots of juicy pix" for ANY
program? Don't get me wrong; I agree it would have been better to show more,
but Keith did cover most of the bases, and the only "negatives" he gave in
his article were related to menus (which he attributed to the cross-platform
nature of Rev - which is true) and the pricing structure.

In my opinion, it was a GLOWING review... look at the final two paragraphs
of the article - a place where reviewers tend to get mealy-mouthed and say
things like "if it had ___ it would be great" or "you judge for yourself",
but instead says:

-------------
Revolution 2.0.1 delivers everything its name promises. It is a
broad-ranging and potent tool which, with a little practice, puts enormous
power into the hands of the user.

Before Revolution, the world of cross-platform software production was
restricted to specialists versed in arcane programming languages, but now it
is limited purely by the user's imagination.
-------------

Does this sound like a "no-mice" review to you? I give MacUser UK the same
number of mice it gave Rev: 4.5.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


> From:     Rob Cozens <rcozens at pon.net>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:29:01 -0700
> To:     use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: 4 and a bit mice......
> 
>> MacUser has no passion, no balls, and, frankly, would not
>> make me interested in RR at all!
>> 
>> So no mice at all to MacUser for their article.
>> 
>> Come on, fight me, disagree with me, feedback ........
>> intellectual ferment.
> 
> No argument here, Richmond...
> 
> but I would extend the statement to Macworld as well and software
> reviewers as a group.
> 
> On 31 May I posted [Dan's Post re RunRev's HyperCard Roots],
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Rob Cozens
> CCW, Serendipity Software Company
> http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm
> 
> "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
> Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
> 
> from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)
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