Trying to use the metaphor

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/18/04 1:27 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:

> I can't tell you how 
> many times I've types "myVar =" to start setting the value of a 
> variable. This is not the kind of thing even someone _completely_ new to 
> programming would do, simply because they would only know the syntax as 
> defined by Rev. Similarly for those coming from other "Card script" 
> languages.

Actually, coming from HC, it was just about as frustrating for me as it 
has been for you. The two environments are similar enough that I thought 
I ought to know how to do things, but different enough that I ended up 
with the same frustrations you are having now. Richard Gaskin and I have 
both walked a number of x-talkers through the Rev learning curve and it 
always seems to go the same way -- Richard has a good list of responses 
that I can't recall exactly but which is close enough to the norm to 
make me laugh out loud each time I read it. It starts off with something 
like "I hate this damn program" and ends up with "How did I ever live 
without this?" Maybe he'll repost -- and you will see that you are 
definitely not alone. ;)

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