To Rev or not to Rev

[Dan Shafer]

I used to feel this way. And I don't code in Java myself, preferring 
Python when Rev won't do. But the latest changes to Java and the 
brilliant IDEs (e.g., Eclipse) and widget toolkits (e.g., 
Windowbuildedr Pro), have really streamlined the dev process. OTOH, 
it's still Java, which is syntactically far too much like C/C++ for my 
personal taste.

But when a client needed an app that did stuff nobody I could find 
could figure out how to do in Rev without a LOT of coding while there 
were dozens of Java libraries available for each of those tasks, I 
realized why a lot of people choose Java, Python and other languages 
with great third-party (and mostly free) libraries.

On Apr 30, 2005, at 12:55 PM, James Spencer wrote:

> IMHO, for things that Rev is not good for, I would use almost anything 
> rather than Java which I don't much care for
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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit/RevConWest