who's out there?

[Dennis Brown]

Jon,

I am retired.  I decided to use Rev as my language of choice for  
doing all those programming projects that I never had time to get to  
before (ha,ha, I'm busier now than ever).  My project list is varied  
from home automation to food databases, and I do conceive of free  
distribution of some of my stuff cross platform via DreamCard.   
However, my big project right now is only indirectly for me.  I am  
working on a very large historical database to generate tools that  
run statistical analysis to discover new relationships.  I am doing  
this project for a friend that will use it in support a worthwhile  
charity.  I use a Mac and he uses PCs.  I can see the need for major  
improvements in the IDE.  A professional can learn to work around  
quirks and bugs.  My beef is that it is the casual user --the ones  
that can make or break a company by virtue of their numbers --that  
will not put up with getting slapped 4 or 5 times on his first day of  
use.  He will give up and look elsewhere unless he has a lot of  
support --like he would get on this list.  The core functionality of  
the IDE should be intuitive, simple and forgiving of the fumbles of  
the novice.  Advanced features should be enabled modularly as one  
learns the basics.  IDE/tutorial in one.  Do this and the revolution  
will begin in earnest.

Dennis


On Jun 5, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Jon wrote:

> I'm curious.  How many of you use Rev to make a living, and how  
> many of you just play with it.