Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus?

[Thomas McGrath III]

I agree with you Chipp.

I turned down a job doing a Director project and instead talked them 
into doing it in REV because I KNEW I could get it done quicker and in 
the short time frame they needed. Now D does have its points but XTalk 
just works better for these type of projects for me. I can Talk my way 
through what it is I want to do and then just do it.
  I don't mind dot syntax as an option but mostly prefer xtalk.

Since REV is so powerful and fast and easy to use I would rather see it 
given a few more vital features and some of those bugs cleaned out 
before even thinking about other syntax being added to the pie.

I was able to buy, learn and distribute a major CD project in only a 
couple of months and do it with certainty only because of Rev's 
transcript being what i expected an xtalk to be. Heck and no manuals 
either. I have 12 Director manuals and still spend way too much time 
looking stuff up in it. With REV I 'think' about what I want in english 
like terms and then start typing. Oh sure there are some weird things 
to get used to but that's the same across the board.

Fwiw

Tom


On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:18 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Frank,
>
> If you want dot notation and equals signs, why wouldn't you just use 
> C, or
> VB or Java or any ohter authoring language which has those? That's what
> *they do*. At some point, adding same syntax ends up creating same
> functionality.
>
> The fact is that the X-talks *are not like those other languages*. 
> That's
> what many of us actually like about Transcript.
>
> When I switched to RR from VB a couple of years ago, I had a few script
> errors like:
>
> x=2 instead of put 2 into x
>
> but, sooner than later...I ended up figuring it out. I expect others 
> do too.
>
> Anytime a person takes on a new language, be it Transcript, LISP, 
> Perl, PHP,
> SQL, ASP, VB, C, C++, C#, Java (on an on) they end up 'learning a new
> language.' It's now a requisite for modern developers to be facile in 
> their
> ability to learn new languages.
>
> RR has limited resources for modifying all of the many compiles of 
> engines
> it supports. My vote is they concentrate on adding features and fixing 
> bugs,
> rather than supporting multiple syntaxes.
>
> best,
>
> Chipp
>
>
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