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[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Chipp,

Of course, you're right. Even in Assembler we used functions and,  
dare I call them APIs, the ROM calls in the original Macs to do a  
whole host of things that were far beyond most of us who ventured  
into the mysteries of programming; but I think that kind of stuff  
should remain as "black box" things into which we normal human beings  
need not dip, or really understand, except for the Interface - the  
results and the parameters.

We really need to keep Rev, as used by most of us, "simple" and fully  
comprehensible.

Thanks for your time and consideration,

Joe Wilkins

On May 29, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Joe,
>
> One of the great things about Rev, is you can program at whatever
> complexity level you feel comfortable with.
>
> I have a number of 'black box' functions and handlers, that even I
> can't easily make sense of as they were programmed years ago and do
> layers of image compositing and pixel offsetting to create my own
> bitmapped fonts. Since they are encapsulated in functions, I can use
> them with a simple call. In fact, I have quite a few libraries like
> this, which are basically 'wrappers' around much more complicated
> code.
>
> That's the beauty of it all. You can use a handler or function in such
> a way you don't need to understand the inner workings of it, only how
> it's called--and what it returns.
>
> In fact Ken Ray has such a library available now for public
> consumption. It's called Revolution stdLib and has some simple and not
> so simple handlers and functions. The full list of functions/commands
> is at the following Wiki page on the Sons of Thunder web
> site:
>
> http://www.sonsothunder.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.RevolutionStdLib
>
> Even though you may not understand the how of the functions, I imagine
> you would be able to use them.
>
> Another great example is libURL which comes with Rev and is written
> entirely with Transcript. It allows you to connect to the internet and
> access web and ftp servers. I doubt many can fully understand the
> genius which Dave Cragg has created there, but we all use it every
> day.
>
> -Chipp
>
> On 5/28/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> If this is the
>> evolving direction of Rev, it is the wrong one. Just MHO.
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