Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

[Judy Perry]

Well, Dan (et al.),

I suppose that I personally don't give a flying flaming figurative fig's
whatever body-part who calls what what, but...

It really would be nice if RunRev could pick a few names and STICK WITH
THEM!!!

I mean, honest to g at d... every term I teach the course, I don't know WHAT
they call the bottom-line product, HOW much the #$@C it costs, what the
$(*&*# it can and cannot do and how the (*C&(N)I'm supposed to refer
to the )#*$  thing just to order it.

Insert expletives and profanities of choice.  Doubly so if you are working
with a certified FrankenLab...  Running a certified sooo yesterday OS like
Mac OS 9...

I mean, YIKESS!!!    This semester alone I sought to purchase DC 10-pack
licenses for my whining, etc., students... only to collect funds to
discover DC no longer exists... because Media will be... someday,... maybe
anyday...  maybe not... g at d only knows when when...and the file format's
changed... and, holy sh at t!  What am I supposed to tell them now, a good
two months after I've collected funds...?

Makes me even nuttier than I already am.  And I KNOW I'm certifiable.  But
I LIKE Rev...!

MIND YOU, RunRev has been MORE THAN GENEROUS in trying to  help me/us...
I mean, believe it or not, *I* understand... but I do worry about the
perception dropped perhaps inadvertently upon my clueless newbies...

Judy

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Dan Shafer wrote:

> You know, I reacted a bit negatively at first as well. Overnight, I began to
> think about it a bit more (I clearly need to get out more.)
>
> Visual Basic is the name of the IDE and the language. Same with RealBASIC.
>
> Then there's Borland's Delphi, which is a development environment for Object
> Pascal. Hmmm. As I thought about that exception (and others that then popped
> into memory), I think I get this differentiation. Giving the language and
> its IDE the same name is a strong way of branding the underlyng
> product/technology. When you layer something on top of a language that's
> already in popular use, you generally add some value and then you need to
> brand, not the underlying language (e.g., Pascal) but your enhancements to
> it. So you name it something else (e.g., Delphi).
>
> Now it makes better sense to me. Not that it had to. But I'm glad it does.