compileIt for revolution?

[Dan Shafer]

This whole discussion has been revealing and intriguing to me.

My favorite programming language is Smalltalk. But before it was  
possible to create UIs for Smalltalk without writing code, I found it  
cumbersome. When a product called WindowBuilder came along, I felt  
like we'd achieved the ultimate development environment. In many  
ways, I still think that. Smalltalk had other problems,  
unfortunately, that made it great to code in, difficult to impossible  
to deploy.

Then my second favorite language was Python. The GUI-building tools  
for Python are pathetic to non-existent. But the language is powerful  
and elegant and extends naturally. If the PythonCard project I was  
engaged in before I discovered Revolution had been on a fast track or  
complete, odds are I'd have never used Rev.

Now I favor Transcript and RunRev. Building UIs is all but painless  
and 95% of what I want or need to do in creating apps is simple  
inside the elegance of Transcript. But Transcript isn't  object- 
oriented.

Two aphorisms came to mind as I read this entire thread again today.

One is, "No good programmer uses only one tool for everything."

The other is, "It's a poor workman who blames his tools."




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Dan Shafer, Revolution Consultant and Author
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