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[Richard Gaskin]

Charles Hartman wrote:
> (off-list)
> Richard,
>  
> This is terrific -- I just downloaded it & used it for ten minutes  and 
> I'm already hooked. Frankly, it seems much more useful (and far  less 
> crash-prone) than the Daniels & Mara suite.

This was apparently intended for private email, but as long as it was 
posted publicly I feel I should offer some feedback on Jerry Daniels' 
excellent Rev tools:

In addition to being one of the nicest and most sincerely helpful people 
I've ever met (maybe second only to Ken Ray, and that's saying a lot as 
Ken has more integrity in one finger than most of us hope to build over 
a lifetime), Jerry Daniels is also one of the smartest and most experienced.

If there's any reason why devolution may appear less buggy (which I 
doubt, if you play with it long enough <g>) it's only because:

a) The Daniels and Mara tools are so much more feature-rich than
    devolution.
    I come from a MetaCard background, with an eye for the spartan,
    and devolution is merely a set of conveniences that myself and
    my clients use to work a little faster.  The D&M tools are much
    more ambitious, and as the old saw goes, more code will mean
    more bugs, at least in a first release.

b) devolution is much older than the D&M tools.
    Jerry's toolkit is a fairly recent release, so we can expect it
    to have a few more bugs than it will in v2.0.  That's just how
    software goes in spite of the best of efforts.  devolution has
    been in use for almost half a decade in about a dozen shops,
    and while I update its components every few weeks while I'm
    working, they've been pounded on a lot and have been through
    multiple iterations.  I have no doubt the D&M tools will be
    among the most rock-solid wares in the Rev world in just another
    release or two -- they're pretty great right now.

If you haven't played with the D&M tools you should check 'em out:
<http://www.daniels-mara.com/products/>

There's some very inventive thinking there, and lots of good utility.

I hope to see an article about Jerry's tools at revJournal soon...

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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