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

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You can be more specific with more knowledgeable people.
  When I travel overseas and people ask where I'm from, I say "The 
United States". When people ask in the US, I say "California". If they 
live on the west coast, I'll probably say "Los Angeles". If they live 
in California, I'll just say "LA". If they live in greater LA, I'll say 
"San Dimas". If they live in San Dimas, I'll say "The corner of 
Commercial St."
  Sometimes "Revolution" is right. Sometimes "Transcript". Transcript 
definitely has its place and it is seldom difficult to know when to use 
it.
 Paul Looney

 -----Original Message-----
 From: ambassador at fourthworld.com
 To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
 Sent: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:25 PM
  Subject: Re: OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language 
than Transcript?

 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. 
  
 -- 
  Richard Gaskin 
  Managing Editor, revJournal 
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