[Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev

[Dan Shafer]

When HyperCard was my development tool of choice, I often bemoaned  
the fact that Apple itself seemed unable to articulate what HyperCard  
really was. "It's a digestive aid AND a floor wax!" In my baser  
moments, I wondered if the problem wasn't that Apple was just too  
dumb to get it.

I've had the same sort of experience with Rev. It has, as Yogi Berra  
is wont to say, "Deja vu all over again." Is it a database or an  
application tool or a development environment? Is it for  
professionals or serious amateurs? Today, one of my favorite  
newsletters, Good Experience by one of the brightest designers and  
thinkers in the Web universe, Mark Hurst, has an explanation for why  
this is the case.

"A good experience is rich, something worth exploring, telling others
about, and experiencing again. It's overdetermined - or holistic - or
*integrated*. And being integrated makes it (often) hard to explain,
since one can't truly reduce an integrated whole to a simple cause."

Well said, I think, and an apt description of Revolution's many- 
faceted appeals.




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