Looking for a defined path to learn Rev (for new users)

[stephen barncard]

If one has ever had to work with punched cards (and I have not) genuinely
deserves the title "hard core". That stuff was so boring in the 60s that it
drove me away from the field.

How did anything get done?
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2009/11/19 Francis Nugent Dixon <effendi at wanadoo.fr>

> Hi from Paris,
>
> I think Jim has it all sown up.
>
> From: "Jim Bufalini" <jim at visitrieve.com>
>
>
>  So, I think you need focus
>> on the lay of the land first.
>>
>
> I went through many languages from 1401 Autocoder,
> through Fortran, through Cobol, through 360 Assembler,
> and then through PL/1. I was young and capable of
> evolving.
>
> Hypercard (at the age of 45) was a shock, and Revolution
> at 60, was a bigger shock. But I took the blows, and
> came out winning (and not whining !!)
>
> The developments of Revolution (revlets, revtalk,
> On-Rev, shake the traditional programmer, but you
> have to go with the flow, or sink into oblivion.
>
> Then the question arises - Are there any traditional
> programmers left ? - It MAY be a dying breed.
>
> Best Regards
>
> -Francis
>
> "Nothing should ever be done for the first time"
>
>
>
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