Dependence on Programming Experts

[J. Landman Gay]

Greg,

My sincere apologies for an unfortunately worded post. I should have 
phrased it better so that you didn't take my remarks personally. By 
"dumbed down" I meant that to accomplish what you are asking, 
Revolution's feature set would have to be drastically reduced -- i.e., 
"dumber". Revolution does provide quite a few libraries when it ships 
that actually attempt to consolidate hundreds of lines of scripting into 
a few single commands. There are pre-written libraries for internet 
access, for databases, for geometry management, and so forth. They 
aren't point-and-click though, you still have to use scripting to work 
with them. A point and click interface could be built with Revolution, 
actually. But it would provide only a small subset of what is available 
in the engine natively.

If you continue to read this list, I think you'll find that I have a 
reputation as one of the least offensive people here. I've been at this 
a long time, so if I've slipped up and unintentionally insulted you, I 
am very sorry. Revolution users are by no means dumb. I was refering to 
the software, not the users.

Having followed this thread now for a few days, my personal opinion is 
that Revolution isn't really what you are looking for. It is a 
programming environment, and there isn't really any way to get around 
that. It is the easiest and most accessible environment I know of, but 
it does require a learning curve. It doesn't sound like this is what you 
are looking for.


GregSmith wrote:
> Jacqueline:
> 
> I think you are using completely the wrong terminology to describe what I
> want a program like Revolution to do for me.  You use the entirely insulting
> phrase "dumbed down" with regard to making Revolution more friendly to a
> user like myself.  Better polish up those social skills of yours.  If
> Revolution is so "dumb" already, that it cannot become accessable and
> immediately useful to a person such as myself, then it is Revolution that
> needs to be "smartened up", making it more accessable and useful, not
> "dumbed down" as you so tactlessly have put it.  
> 
> Why must an intelligent person be made to twist his organized and fruitful
> thinking into something less than that?  Why also, must such a person be
> forced to address a machine with terms and phrases and sequences that are
> alien and unnatural, not catering to the needs of that user, but rather
> forcing the user to lower himself to communicate in the primal grunts and
> groans that the machine is used to responding to?
> 
> Greg Smith


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