Why isn't Rev more popular?

[Andre Garzia]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote:

> And then what's going to be,if a professional programmer can't even  
> write a
> simple print without the user should have to intervene to choose  
> printers
> and styles and and ....
> Or if wanted to add a timer constant running from when the  
> application is
> launched.
> Rev is good for games or so. Sorry.
>
> Rev is not at the state of being used for commercial business  
> applications.


Hershel,

many developers here deployed more than one business application  
built with Rev. I deployed a project manager that was network savvy  
and database aware. As for your print problem, well, it's good  
manager to ask the user for printers, here I have three printers, one  
real and two networked ones, I expect that software will ask me where  
to print. I don't know what's the problem with your timer issue, I  
use lots of timers, the send in time function is as easy as a timer  
can get, it's not safe for Real Time stuff like medical appliances  
but Rev does not run on any operating system that targets real time  
machines such as medical ones and sensor engineering ones....

I have seen more business applications being deployed with Rev than  
games, sorry to spoil your hopes... Revolution is as safe as any good  
language for business applications, you have access to database,  
networking and encryption, the only missing options is thread  
spawning but we can do a lot of things without multiple threads, most  
business apps don't need multiple threads beyond the message mechanics.

  cheers
andre