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[Richard Gaskin]

Randall Reetz wrote:

 > I should be more clear.  I am not critical of rev.

I am at times.  In fact I was writing a response to your last email and 
didn't send it only because it was more critical than useful. ;)

Suffice to say there's always room for improvement.

 > When it comes to the network, with its countless protcols,
 > lanuages, language interface layers, and shifting processing
 > models and vm's, its almost complete lack of overaching theory,
 > it is a wonder anyone can build content or tools for it.  That
 > is the monster of which i speak.  I want to get things done,
 > but more importantly, i want powerful things to get done.
 > Things that shape the future, that make each of us more powerful.
 > Monsterous roadblocks masquerading as gateways just confuse and
 > slow progress.  It ain't rev's fault.
 > But it effects everything rev users do.

True, computers and everything around them are still quite primitive. 
We've come a long way since punch cards, but there's still a long way to 
go before they become truly intuitive for the user, and much longer 
before they become so for the developer (or better still, when the 
dividing line between the two disappears).

That said, every time I use a compiler or JavaScript coming back to Rev 
afterward seems like heaven. :)

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