Why isn't Rev more popular?

[Bill Marriott]

"Bill Marriott" <runrev at wjm.org> wrote in message news:...
> Well for reasons I may not be aware of, all the new commands seem to be in 
> the format, "revDoSomething" followed by parameters. Example:
>
>    revAddXMLNode treeID, parentPath, nodeName, nodeContents
>
> the official example:
>
>    revAddXMLNode 9,"/","Balls",""
>
> Why couldn't you say something like
>
>    add node "Balls" to the root path of XML tree id 9
>
> I'm not saying that is the exact perfect syntax, nor is it "compact," but 
> it would be super readable/self-documenting and easy to remember. This is 
> what I mean about advancing TransScript.
>
> Bill
>
> [Oh yeah, reason #15: Inability to copy and paste from the documentation 
> stack!]
>
> "Mark Wieder" <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote in 
> message news:102945525.20051202090638 at ahsoftware.net...
>> Bill-
>>
>> Thursday, December 1, 2005, 7:47:19 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> 14) Not advancing the HyperTalk (Transcript) language further. New 
>>> features
>>> tend to come in the form of functions instead of English-language stuff 
>>> that
>>> makes this language a joy to use. The code is looking more and more like
>>> JavaScript (ugh).
>>
>> I'm intrigued by this. Can you explain this one for me? Are you
>> referring to adding new keywords to the language, adding new syntax,
>> or what? What would you look for that isn't currently available?
>>
>> -- 
>> -Mark Wieder
>> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>>
>>
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