OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language than Transcript?

[Sivakatirswami]

We just came back from a two-day NewsTrain conference for journalists,
put on by Associated Press and the Knight foundation.  We showed our
Hinduism Today Digital Edition to a few people, one of  whom is the
"critically acclaimed, award winning web developer"  Rob Curley (see 
robcurley.com) who has helped produce the
"best news sites on the net" web sites. (right, you may never have heard 
of him... this is in journalism--check out his latest
production www.naplesnews.com... it's incredible, even if the content is
"pop-local"  click things under the dot.cool section)

This man hired away some of Google's top engineers to join his IT
team... he pays each one of back end IT team way up in the 6 figures,
and any intern (he's big on $8/per hour "internology") lucky enough to
work with him will leave his team and get 6 figures.

OK, so, we have this 2 minute window to talk with him about what we do
while he boots up Powerpoint on his 17" Macbook Pro. His first question
was: "Hmmm, interesting, what is  that coded in?" he's a super geek and
didn't care about  content--he wanted to know the technology behind it.

I said  "Revolution"  He said "Hmm never heard of Revolution. Oops gotta
go... I'm up next...."

I don't think I should  to have said "coded  in transcipt" at that moment.


Sivakatirswami





Dar Scott wrote:
>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> As a language junkie I'd say xTalks including Transcript are easily 
>> and by
>> far the most English-like programming languages on the planet.
>
> I was fortunate to be part of the team for Savvy which predated 
> HyperTalk and shared many of the same commands.  That was also before 
> GUI and mouse, at least before we understood them.  Almost every 
> HyperTalk command that was not GUI related was in Savvy.  Savvy used a 
> form based script editor built around English syntax, and being of 
> poor memory, I miss that.  I need a hint once in a while.  Blanks 
> unfolded as parameters were needed.  But, I don't think we can say 
> Savvy is on the planet anymore.  Even so, my mother-in-law still uses 
> the bookkeeping package I made long ago and some folks are using 
> emulators to still run Savvy.  I think the current owners have lost 
> the source.
>
>> And, to answer your opening question, Runtime Revolution is trying 
>> hard to
>> get us to call the language Revolution. I'm resisting and I suspect 
>> lots of
>> other folks are as well. I consider that a silly and ill-advised 
>> terminology
>> change. But in their official literature, it's now Revolution which you
>> program in...er...Revolution.
>
> I can understand both sides of this.  When I used LabView people 
> looked at me funny when I said I programmed in G, so I simply said I 
> programmed in LabView.  I wonder if in the olden days people would say 
> they programmed in HyperCard to avoid confusion.
>
> I have had trouble explaining Transcript to customers, so now say 
> Revolution.
>
> Dar Scott
>
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