What Rev Needs -- Again (was "Why is Konfabulator "Pretty?")

[John Vokey]

Well, maybe just ``old''.  ``Too old'' is a bit strong (however true  
in my case!).  But, I agree with Mr. Rossi in many of his  
particulars, which is why I have been promoting DreamCard even though  
I do not, as a rule, use it.  I also, as a rule, do not do anything  
in RR (or MC, more usually) that DreamCard couldn't do.  The  
DreamCard model *is* the Hypercard model in modern guise.  Yes, 10- 
line limited DO scripts don't quite fit what we (``old'' HC coders)  
accepted, and having most engine commands incapable of being replaced  
by simple scripts doesn't either.  I don't care: You want the promise  
of HC?  And multi-OS, and colour, and, and, and...  Get DreamCard.   
Brilliant.  And, however true otherwise, I am not an old fool in this  
case.

But, as for the IDE, and what would attract young users?  Mr. Rossi  
is probably dead-on, and dead-right that for the long-term survival  
of RR such attraction may be critical.  But what would I know?   I  
actually prefer the MC interface!    Still, all the (yes, young!)  
students that leave my lab are MC/RR evangelists.  And successful,  
too.  No matter where they go, MC/RR becomes the lab programming  
environment.  I feel good about that, and always have.  They also  
tend to convert all and sundry to LaTeX, but that is a different  
story. ;-)

On 6-Dec-05, at 7:05 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Rev developers are too old.
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