Why isn't Rev more popular?

[Dennis Brown]

Janus,

Transcript has the abbreviated terms like "card,cd or background,bg"  
like in Hypercard, and the syntax has a lot of the same variations,  
but Transcript is a bit less forgiving with some forms that can  
become ambiguous when leaving out "the".  However, I have never run  
into a problem with it when writing from scratch.  However, there are  
differences to Hypercard that make a direct translation a bit of  
work.  Backgrounds are a major difference in how they are implemented.

Dennis

On Dec 2, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Janus Jakaterina wrote:

> Dennis, if I recall correctly HyperCard used to let
> one script something like "go to the background of
> this card" or something much shorter but more cryptic
> such as "go bg this cd". Not sure about the syntax,
> but my point is that HyperTalk was very forgiving.
>
> Is Transcript similarly forgiving?
>
> --- Dennis Brown <see3d at writeme.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>
>>> Problem 3: <warning - heresy follows> there's no
>> such thing as
>>> "self-documenting, human-readable code". Sorry -
>> that's the way it is.
>>> Xtalk comes pretty close, though. Even comes
>> pretty close to
>>> "human-thinkable".
>>
>> Even though Transcript is pretty verbose, I find
>> that I need to add
>> 25-50% more characters as comments to be able to go
>> back and figure
>> out what I wrote easily.  I don't see how it is
>> possible to have the
>> what convey the why, and even the what need some
>> help now and then.
>>
>> Dennis
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