Serious applications

[Thomas McGrath III]

Not to mention that REV can be configured by you to allow a lab 
approach for different coders to work on different aspects at the same 
time (Libraries and shared function names). That would be real RAD + 
RAD increasing the time.

Now, I do know of some areas where REV won't work. My client has a 
proprietary hardware device with limited memory available and codes in 
C. REV has too large of a footprint for this. BUT I am currently 
designing a fast development tool for testing the software for use in 
those devices. Right now it takes them 3-6 months to 'try' a new 
approach in their system and with a REV version on the desktop they can 
test functionality changes in a few days or weeks. Once i am done I 
plan on selling it to them and showing them how they can increase time 
to market by testing first in my product and then porting/coding in C 
for the final install.

I am very excited about this because if I do this in REV then I can add 
modules to it for them to use as presentation materials and other neat 
things right from the start.

Tom

On Feb 25, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:

>> has been testing Revolution for a couple of hours and looks a little 
>> bit
>> inmature
>
> Hi Jose,
>
> Looks can be deceiving: there is power in simplicity.
>
> I have used Transcript to create a generic, hierarchical, 
> client/server database.  I am working on a project to convert to 
> Transcript an existing suite of HyperTalk business applications, 
> currently installed throughout North America &  in New Zealand.  I am 
> also in the process of converting a HyperTalk wine production control 
> system to Transcript that, when completed will be marketed world-wide 
> in a single, multi-lingual, user-translatable version.
>
> The stack script of Serendipity Library is now approaching 5,000 
> lines, and someone recently mentioned maintaining a script in excess 
> of 8,000 lines.  Add up all the scripts of all the objects involved in 
> either application, and I expect you will get a non-trivial result.
>
> To paraphrase a comment I posted previously: as former chair of the 
> local MUG's HyperTalk SIG, I have seen "real" (as in "working") 
> applications created in HyperTalk by people with no prior programming 
> experience; people who in my estimation couldn't write one small 
> routine in C.  So which is more immature in terms of software 
> development evolution, an environment that nobody but the initiated 
> can use at all, or an environment where even non-IS grads can create 
> software that is meaningful to them?  If I showed you an oil painting 
> done by a 10 year old, could you judge whether the oils & brushes used 
> were suitable for a professional artist?
>
> Focus your evaluation on capabilities, not syntax.
> -- 
>
> Rob Cozens
> CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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>
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> Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
>
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