Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Sun Apr 9 10:04:27 EDT 2006


Robert,

I guess I'm just resistant to change because I'm still not that happy  
about it. But after a nights sleep I am more willing to see how it  
plays out for the long road. There are a lot of changes happening  
lately so I assume they have a plan and are sticking to it. I guess  
that's good.


Tom

On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:

>> Lynn
>>
>> What is the thinking behind this? I am a little put off by the  
>> change. Hypercard had hypertalk, supercard had supertalk, director  
>> had lingo and Revolution had Transcript. I love the name transcript.
>>
>
> My initial reaction was the same, but after sleeping on this, I  
> concluded that the change is not so significant. I mean it is okay  
> to drop the differentiation since the coding is an integral part of  
> using the IDE. It was different with HyperCard since it clearly  
> delineated different operation modes, with scripting being the  
> highest level, and it was possible to lock users out of scripting  
> while still letting them modify the stacks.
>
> On the other hand, what is now the programming language of  
> MetaCard? It used to be MetaTalk. Then we started saying Transcript  
> for simplicity, although technically not quite correct since all  
> the revXxxx thingies were not available there while implicitly part  
> of Transcript. I guess I have to say now I program in Revolution  
> using MetaCard IDE. Maybe it would be the right time to have  
> FlipsIDE (what ever happened to it btw?), so IDEs can be switched  
> like skins sort of and further eliminate the distinction of  
> language flavors.
>
> Robert
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