Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (rather long)

[Brian Yennie]

>> - do you really think that the current Rev / MC IDEs allow us to
>> maintain &
>> debug scripts with hundreds or thousands of lines ? Of course not... 
>> But
>
> Salut, JB,
>
> And my I say that I agree wholehearted with every word you 
> wrote...until you ended with the statements I included above:
>
> 1.  The stack script of Serendipity Library has 4,566 lines as of the 
> latest update.

Ditto here. I have a commercial application condensed into one big 
8,000+ line script. Rev doesn't seem to have any trouble with it. It 
runs without error for months at a time. It also uses sockets for all 
of it's communications (it's a web app). Runs under Rev 2.0, often with 
5+ copies running on an XServe.

For large scripts, I usually:

1) Break them into smaller scripts (duh- but sometimes an advantage, 
sometimes not)
2) Put my own marker functions in (i.e. an empty function 
"UTILITY_FUNCTIONS" before all of my utility functions)

That's about it. They seem to work fine... I've even edited them 
through a b&w Timbuktu session, while the software was running, with 
the debugger.

I'm sure there could be problems I haven't seen, but it seems pretty 
capable to me.

FWIW.

Brian