OT: Adobe kills Director

[Jesse Sng]

>You know, Jesse, I COMPLETELY get it now.
>
>xTalk is the main reason why I decided to check out (and then buy a
>copy of) RR a couple of months ago.  I'm completely hooked on the
>language, which is stupid and crazy, since I've worked in
>30+languages, most of them BEFORE xTalk, and I had more-or-less given
>up on xTalk for the last 10 years.

I've been in the same situation. I could do the other stuff better 
than most people but there was something about XTalk that was 
unmatched.

I compared it to writing novels vs writing poetry. XTalk development 
was like poetry, you do it in small chunks, in small, elegant bits 
and instead marching down the timeline of a project, you could sprint 
in short spurts and then get to enjoy the scenery at the same time.

>It isn't rational to like xTalk more than BASIC.  OK, no, that's so
>not true.  I'm shutting up now.  I actually was pondering writing an
>xTalk interpreter/cross-compiler earlier this year until I discovered
>RR.  With the innovations that SC brought after I gave up on it that
>were then incorporated into RR I'm glad I didn't.  Of course, RR has
>quirks in it that are extremely annoying, but with some suggestions
>from Richard, I'm hopeful that I can ultimately overcome them.

Folks used poo-poo the stuff I did in SC, saying that they could 
better with all their advanced tools and superior brains, but nothing 
ever came out of those projects, while I moved it from black and 
white Hypercard to Hypercard with 24 bit colour using my own 
externals, to SC.

While lots of things took very little code in SC, you can build very 
sophisticated things with much code. Getting to enjoy Rev a bit more 
and it helps when you try it out, do some stuff, back off, think a 
bit before going back to it some more.

Getting into Rev isn't quite the same as SC or HC, but it isn't 
difficult either.

Ultimately, I think it's because the development model better suits 
the playfulness in my mind when I'm initiating a new project. It 
invites the playfulness and the experimentation, very much like 
messing around with your kids' Lego bricks.


Jesse