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[Rob Cozens]

>  Who wants Rev to be as user-friendly as C?

I'm afraid that's impossible, Judy:  one would have to--

* "dumb down" the Rev Dev UI,

* completely rewrite Transcript to make the syntax as succinct as possible

* "power down" the syntax so it takes half a page of code to 
accomplish what could previously be done in one line

* add support for line end characters (eg: ";") which completely 
change the meaning of a statement when appended to it.

* place programmer's premium on how complicated a command can be 
produced in a minimal token string, preferably incorporating the line 
end character mentioned above & other "C cleverness" to impress one's 
colleagues with the ultimate undecipherable, cryptic statement.

:{`)
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Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)