I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

[Alex Tweedly]

Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Jon wrote:
>
>> I envy those of you who use Rev all of the time.  For the rest of us, 
>> it continues to be a very frustrating experience.
>
>
> How many other multi-platform programming language have your learned, 

4 or 5, depending how you count them ...  (actually could be more, since 
I could count Fortran with two completely different multi-platform macro 
and library systems).

> and how much less time did they take to master?
>
can't answer - I don't feel I ever "mastered" any of them :-)

But the answer for how long to get basically competent is probably
 - first one was very slow  (call it 100 time units)
 - second one wasn't entirely different, and shared some libraries - so 
it was much faster (call it 50)
 - third one was a quite different language, but similar libraries (call 
it 65)
 - fourth one was different GUI approach, though similar language - call 
it 30 until basic, 70 until competent
 - fifth was Rev - call it 10 to get basic, 30 to get reasonable, 60 to 
get started, 80 so far
                          (yes, it did feel like I went backwards for a 
while :-)

As for the original question - I used a backslash without thinking about 
it, just out of dumb good luck, so didn't even realize it was a question 
that needed asking ....

And I think there's a serious point about "using Rev all the time ..." - 
I find Rev frustrating in trivial ways when I switch between it and 
Python too often (stupid little things like writing a whole section of 
script like
     myVar1 = empty
    myVar2 = "this string"
before having a "Duh!" moment and re-writing it all properly with 
"put"). That's entirely my fault - I know how to do it in Rev, and I 
know not to blame Rev for my strong habits - but it can be frustrating.

It works better for me to try to stick to one language for a week or 
more at a time. Of course, having a multiplicity of simultaneous 
projects and real life rarely allow that, but when I can do it, I stop 
doing this kind of silly stuff, and the frustration level drops quickly.

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



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