OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language than Transcript?

[Richard Gaskin]

Sivakatirswami wrote:

> We just came back from a two-day NewsTrain conference for journalists,
> put on by Associated Press and the Knight foundation.  We showed our
> Hinduism Today Digital Edition to a few people, one of  whom is the
> "critically acclaimed, award winning web developer"  Rob Curley (see 
> robcurley.com) who has helped produce the
> "best news sites on the net" web sites. (right, you may never have heard 
> of him... this is in journalism--check out his latest
> production www.naplesnews.com... it's incredible, even if the content is
> "pop-local"  click things under the dot.cool section)
> 
> This man hired away some of Google's top engineers to join his IT
> team... he pays each one of back end IT team way up in the 6 figures,
> and any intern (he's big on $8/per hour "internology") lucky enough to
> work with him will leave his team and get 6 figures.
> 
> OK, so, we have this 2 minute window to talk with him about what we do
> while he boots up Powerpoint on his 17" Macbook Pro. His first question
> was: "Hmmm, interesting, what is  that coded in?" he's a super geek and
> didn't care about  content--he wanted to know the technology behind it.
> 
> I said  "Revolution"  He said "Hmm never heard of Revolution. Oops gotta
> go... I'm up next...."
> 
> I don't think I should  to have said "coded  in transcipt" at that moment.

Precisely.  No one does, any more than they'd answer "Lingo" when 
they're referring to Director.

Like any proprietary language, Transcript cannot be used outside of the 
Revolution engine.  When talking with outsiders who ask about the 
development system it's appropriate and certainly clearer to just use 
the name of that system.

But that system includes many parts: language + object model + IDE + 
whatever tools you've added.  Having a name which describes the language 
as distinct from the other parts that make up the Rev development system 
is useful for those conversations where the distinction matters, such as 
documentation and tutorials aimed at Rev developers.

I've never seen any context where the Transcript programming language is 
mentioned without also mentioning the Revolution development system 
needed to use it.

This has never been a problem for any of the languages sold by 
wonderfully successul companies for decades, and it's never been a 
problem for Rev.

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  Richard Gaskin
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