compileIt for revolution?

[Rob Cozens]

Dan, et al,

>
>programming language that is everything to everyone is nothing to
>anyone.

Not if it does the job.  (You'd really like to switch between different 
programming environments to create bits and pieces of an 
application?)  Isn't C a programming language that is everything to 
everyone?  Is there something one cannot program in C alone?

Why would any Transcript scriptor want to write externals in C or Pascal if 
she could use Transcript syntax instead?

I think I've mentioned this before: Dan, I believe you, like moi, have 
suggested to C programmers new to Transcript that they will find 
Transcript's "verbose" syntax to be greatly more productive in terms of 
lines of code needed to accomplish a given task.  So why would you want to 
use a different, less productive programming language to write 
externals?  Would you feel the same if you had to write externals in 
Assembler or machine code?

Rob Cozens

"Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind,
and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul."

-- François Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)