[OT] If programming languages were religions...

[Randall Reetz]

I think all if you have drank a bit too much of the rev coolaid.  This dicussion was about Languages with a capital "L".  Comparing rev on the same level with C is like comparing Islam with sarah palin's local prayer house.  Lets be reasonable please.


-----Original Message-----
From: "Björnke von Gierke" <bvg at mac.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 12/20/2008 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...


On 20 Dec 2008, at 04:41, Randall Reetz wrote:

> I wish people would use the term xtalk when refering to this  
> language its structure and lexicon both come intact from hypercard  
> and smalltalk before that.  Revenue is a great integration synthesis  
> of xtalk and a cross platform runtime engines, but the language is  
> xtalk all the way in.  Seems only fair.  No?

No. Time for car analogies (Noooo!!!):

If someone comes to the car salesman, and says "I'd want to buy a  
Lexus". Would you argue he'd be better off to say "I'd want to buy any  
car"?

Xtalk is a loose description of  types of languages, which includes  
hypercard as well as Rev. Of course the analogy will break down  
quickly if you ask 10 xtalk followers whether applescript is an xtalk  
language or not.

Describing stuff is always hard, especially with the name trinity of  
RunRev marketing, but using xtalk for just one language will probably  
garner you some internet hate :)

Have Fun
Björnke
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