As programming environments get more powerful programers get lazy

[Kay C Lan]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:40 PM, william humphrey <shoreagent at gmail.com>wrote:


> I think that those guidelines along with
> some others should really be consolidated into something that the
> mothership
> could recommend for our use.
>

Do you mean something like page 163 of the RevolutionUserGuide.pdf as
accessed via the Rev 3.0 Help menu - User Guide. :-)

At first I though a bit skimpy, and why is it at the end of the chapter
Writing Revolution Code. Then I realised it's perfect. Because of the way I
learn, if there'd been a whole heap of naming rules, script location
conventions and library stack usage guidelines to wade through BEFORE I got
to lick, stick, staple, tape and chewing gum together my first stack I
probably would have pushed it all to the side and said, yeah, I'll check
that out tomorrow - and there's always a tomorrow;-)

I loved HC (and Rev) because it's like Lego, who says all the blue bricks
have to go together or that I have to start with that main.m brick! Sure,
there are huge advantages if you use naming conventions, and are selective
where scripts reside; but not until you've learnt that Rev is an amazing
tool that allows you to do things that you thought only geeks with a silicon
thumb could do.

Play first, learn rules later.