license issues (was mystery exception)

[Geoff Canyon]

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 01:08 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> Well, this may be true for most people but it can be a show stopper 
> for some. Consider a scientific application that involves modelling or 
> function fitting. I have written such a program some years ago (sold 
> as shareware) and would love to recreate it with MC/Rev (users still 
> ask for it but the old code stopped working with OS 8). It requires 
> users entering complex math functions that program matches to the 
> provided set of experimental data, calculating statistical fit and 
> producing graphical output. It would be trivial to run it through 
> "do", but the 10-line limit is a killer. The only alternative I see is 
> to write my own interpreter/compiler in MetaTalk but that ain't so 
> trivial and slows things down. Of course, another alternative is to 
> have each user buy their own copy of MC or Rev but that would be akin 
> to asking users of programs written in C to buy CodeWarrior (although 
> I am sure that MC/Rev folks would love it).

I'm facing the same situation in trying to implement Lisp-like 
functionality in Revolution. A functional approach to coding is making 
the script-length-limits into only a minor issue.

The alternative would be to approach RunRev about a special license. I 
don't know whether it would be possible, but it seems like a win-win to 
me.

regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com