Rev's Mac-Centricity (Was: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

[Dan Shafer]

Chipp.....

You make some good points but they aren't really counters to my 
thoughts. Rather they are sort of orthogonal segues.

I did not mean to say or imply that I wish Rev would simply stop 
supporting other platforms. That would make their program useless to me 
as an OS X developer. What I said -- or intended, at any rate -- was 
that:

(a) Multi-platform support is difficult or impossible to execute while 
allowing for platform/OS-specific functionality;
(b) Windows programmers are less likely to adopt almost ANY non-MS tool 
set (though your point about VB does ring true).
(c) The vast, vast majority of serious professional programmers will 
not take Rev seriously or will be prohibited by any number of factors 
from adopting it in place of current dev technologies.

(BTW, I have not heard anything to indicate MS is *abandoning* VB. 
Where did you hear that?)
On Aug 7, 2004, at 8:06 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> MO, Any RR investor would do so on the belief of it's strongest 
> virtue: cross-platform development. To ignore it, would be 
> irresponsible from a business point of view.
>
We agree completely here.



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