Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus?

[Frank Leahy]

On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 01:14  AM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
>> Supporting JavaScript is an interesting idea.  I probably wouldn't
>> used it, but I wonder if it would bring others to Revolution.
>>
>>
> And the new Director supports JavaScript alongside Lingo syntax. My
> bet: it'll just confuse everyone. (And I love Lingo, BTW)
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
>

Hah!  Lingo supports = (equal sign) as an assignment operator (plus 
lots of overloading +=, -=, etc.), so I guess "x = 1" can't be all that 
bad :-)

My bet is that it will lower the barrier against using it for those who 
know Javascript already -- "Hmmm, Director has Javascript syntax?  
Maybe it won't take as long to get up to speed as I previously thought 
it would."

-- Frank