Code Samples/Comparisons

[Bill Marriott]

Hi everyone,

We've taken your feedback to heart and will be putting effort into 
significantly improving our comparisons. (It obviously doesn't help to put 
up "straw men.")

To that end, I would very much appreciate contributions from the community. 
If you have code samples in other languages that you feel would be good 
illustrations of how revTalk can be shorter and/or more readable, please 
either post them to the list or mail directly to me -- bill.marriott (at) 
runrev.com.

We're especially interested in :

- ActionScript (Flash)
- REALbasic
- PHP

and to a lesser extent

- C/C++/C#
- Visual Basic
- Java
- JavaScript

If you are able to replicate the functionality with a revTalk example, all 
the better. Try to focus your efforts on real-world tasks, classic 
programming challenges, things everyone building software can relate to. And 
of course, areas where revTalk really shines.

While it won't be the same as getting "recognized experts" [in those other 
languages] to produce the examples, I know there's a wealth of knowledge 
here in the use-list and am hoping you'll contribute some sterling examples.

Thanks very much,

Bill
RunRev marketing guy

> Whatever the answer, Andre raised a very relevant point, with which I 
> fully agree, that Rev is not well served by using a comparison against 
> what others feel is very poor code. [...]
>
> To truly demonstrate Rev's ability against other code, get the code 
> written by a recognised expert in that language (somebody like Bruce Eckel 
> for Java and C++). Yes, it would cost money but I believe it would be 
> money well spent.