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

[Richard Gaskin]

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, 
>> and how much less time did they take to master?
>>
 > My ONLY point was that I was unable to find this simple item in the
 > Help.

I agree; it's as hard to find in Rev's help as it is in the world's most 
popular IDE, VB.  When RunRev makes a token entry for that they'll have 
one up on the biggest software vendor in history. :)

If participating in a discussion group to get near-instant assistance is 
frustrating, there's hope:

When I was first transitioning to Transcript (back then it was called 
MetaTalk) from a background of mostly SuperTalk and a little C and 
Pascal (and all of it only on Mac), I whinged all over the discussion 
list about how this was wrong and that was wrong and why couldn't they 
just do it like it's done in HyperCard and why is the whole thing just 
stupid!

Fortunately, RunRev's Kevin Miller and MetaCard Corp's Scott Raney had 
far more patience than I.  In each case where I was certain the language 
was stupid they paitently walked me through how it got that way, how 
much its platform-independent nature (and arguably superior object 
model) sometimes meant I had to learn new ways of doing things.

In every case they were able to turn my tirade into a productive 
learning experience. (Except in the case of the destroyStack token, 
which I still maintain is an unnecessarily frightening choice of 
terminology for something that's really quite benign <g>).

If there's any reason I feel so supportive about the language today, 
it's because I came to it kicking and screaming.

Having once wore the crown if King Whinger, I can tell you from 
firsthand experience that it's quite possible to learn the language 
well, and that it went a little faster once I got past the whingeing.

You needn't learn the language as slowly as I did. :)

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  Richard Gaskin
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