Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

[Dan Shafer]

You know, I reacted a bit negatively at first as well. Overnight, I began to
think about it a bit more (I clearly need to get out more.)

Visual Basic is the name of the IDE and the language. Same with RealBASIC.

Then there's Borland's Delphi, which is a development environment for Object
Pascal. Hmmm. As I thought about that exception (and others that then popped
into memory), I think I get this differentiation. Giving the language and
its IDE the same name is a strong way of branding the underlyng
product/technology. When you layer something on top of a language that's
already in popular use, you generally add some value and then you need to
brand, not the underlying language (e.g., Pascal) but your enhancements to
it. So you name it something else (e.g., Delphi).

Now it makes better sense to me. Not that it had to. But I'm glad it does.

On 4/9/06, Thomas McGrath III <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > use-revolution mailing list
> > use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
> > subscription preferences:
> > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>
> Thomas J McGrath III
> 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
>
> Lazy River Software™ - http://www.lazyriversoftware.com
>
> Lazy River Metal Art™ - http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/metal.html
>
> Meeting Wear™ - http://www.cafepress.com/meetingwear
>
> Semantic Compaction Systems - http://www.minspeak.com
>
> SCIconics, LLC - http://www.sciconics.com/sciindex.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>



--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author
http://www.shafermedia.com
Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought"
>From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html