Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus?

[Judy Perry]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Frank Leahy wrote:
>
> Disagreeing right back at you.  If you want professionals to use Rev,
> then you need standard assignment statement syntax -- without them
> Revolution looks like a hobbyist language rather than a real working
> language ("oh, it's just HyperTalk, and we all know that wasn't a
> 'real' language/development environment")  And since it's perfectly
> possible to support "x = 1" without affecting the current "put" and
> "set" statements, I would argue that they should consider adding it.

If Transcript were to look just like C et al, what would be its
comparative advantage??

Show of hands:  Who wants Rev to be as user-friendly as C?

Judy