Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus?

[Dan Shafer]

On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Frank Leahy wrote:

>
> 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 :-)
>
Frank...never said x=1 was bad, just that it was not as good as "put 1 
into x" in terms of my mind and readability!

hah! ;-)

> 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."
>
Well, sure it'll lower the barrier for those who already know JS. I 
just don't think that's such a big audience. JS app developers as a set 
probably don't have much Venn Diagram overlap with multimedia 
developers.

> -- Frank
>
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