Rev and Externals (Was Re: OT: Analyzing competitors - In this case Real Software)

[Dan Shafer]

I'd like to second this notion and add that doing so is something I 
would not have expected to do even a few months ago.

But I recently had a need to write an app for a client that called 
external libraries for encryption and a couple of other tasks. 
Ultimately, we decided we could not do the project effectively in my 
favorite tool and ended up hiring a Java programmer to do it.  He did 
the entire project in under two weeks and it performs brilliantly.

If Rev had external lib support abstracted into the Transcript language 
in a platform-independent way, I'd have used it and finished the 
project in two or three days!

dan

On Mar 22, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Gordon Webster wrote:

> So come on Runtime, how about something like:
>
>  start using external "fabulousexternal.dll"