rev apps on iPhone?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi KC,

People who refer to PowerPoint, Excel, Pages, Keynote, Filemaker, and  
other applications just aren't familiar with XCode because they are no  
die-hard programmers. They don't know that all those objects they  
would like to see in Revolution, such as real table objects, are  
readily available in XCode and .Net. People who are asking "why  
doesn't this work like in...?" really have a point.

XCode and Visual <put language here> are really neat development  
environments, compared with MPW, ZBasic, MS Basic, QuickBasic, Think  
Pascal, Think C, etc. I'd expect the typical school boy or girl to be  
able to learn all the ins and outs of nowadays development  
environments during summer holidays, just like I did with HyperCard 20  
years ago.

20 years ago, we saw people drawing a silly puppet on a card and  
adding one non-working button and releasing their "programme". Having  
no internet, people thought they were doing cool stuff and since  
HyperCard was the only environment of its kind, they were actually  
doing pretty cool stuff, even if their software didn't work.

Nowadays, no right-minded school boy or girl would ever release an  
XCode project with just a picture and a non-working button, because  
this is obviously uncool. Times have changed.

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Mark Schonewille

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On 29 jun 2008, at 02:45, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
> I tend to agree with this, but on the other hand I don't.
>
> Sometimes I read posts here about people wanting better this, or  
> better
> that, and usually they make a reference to some app like; 'it's been  
> in
> FileMaker for years, like Excel has, similar to PowerPoint, just like
> iTunes, etc etc'. This is worse than comparing chalk to cheese. I  
> rarely see
> any 'I want x,y or x, just like Xcode, or name your favourite  
> development
> environment.' I don't know, I've never really done much with Xcode,  
> but I
> imagine creating a table that works just like Excel probably takes a  
> lot of
> hard work.

<snip>

>
> IMO to bring Rev like development to the iPhone would ignite a  
> HyperCard
> like cult - the size of which depending very much on cost. I'm sure  
> there
> are school loads of kids out there who when faced with the effort  
> required
> to labour through Xcode, would just give up. But with the 'core'  
> ease of Rev
> it would be a whole new ball game. Sure, they won't produce anything  
> like
> FileMaker or iCal etc, but neither did the vast majority of HC  
> users. Again,
> price of entry would be the key sticking point here.