Serious applications

[Graham Samuel]

On  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:19:13 -0800, Richard Gaskin 
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>But a lot of programmers, developers, software  publishers, IT shops,
>and hobbyists are always on the lookout for greater productivity and
>stronger ROI.  For them Rev has a liberating answer.
[snip]

I agree completely with this remark (well, Richard always talks sense 
IMHO!). But for me as an ex-manager in IT (I know there are quite a 
few of us on this list), I don't think that the **language** is the 
key issue in thinking about constructing a 'serious application' 
according to the definition offered by Marc Albrecht - I think it 
comes quite a way after issues about the suitability of the whole IDE 
for working in teams, support for rigorous testing (including 
automated regression testing),modularity, maintainability, 
deployment... issues about the organisation and processes involved in 
industrial-scale software production.

Personally I no longer have to worry about any of this: for me RR 
certainly is a 'liberating answer'.It's a fantastically productive 
tool and for cross-platform development seems to me to be almost the 
only game in town. But I guess we Revvers should be able to answer 
the question "can RunRev cut the mustard in an industrial-scale 
context? Would RR be suitable for a development involving 10, 20 or 
more staff?". If the answer is 'no', then IMO that's a perfectly 
honorable answer, and it still leaves RunRev with worlds to conquer; 
but right now I don't think anyone has in fact given a clear answer.

Just 2 more Eurocents

Graham
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