Serious applications

[Mark Wieder]

A.C.T.-

Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 9:25:43 AM, you wrote:

ACT> The question starting this thread was for "serious apps" - aside from
ACT> this terminus not being "defined" I tried to express my own problems. I
ACT> apologize that I sounded like attacking Transcript - I did not mean to,
ACT> as you all noticed, I can not judge about Transcript.

Well put. I think the hard task in front of RunRev is convincing
current programmers that they should learn a new language and syntax.
I have to echo some of the other sentiments here and say that I do use
C/C++ in most of my work due to the hurdle of convincing prospective
clients to accept a product written in anything else, but I find my
write/develop/debug cycle *much* faster in rev than in C. My
productivity is roughly on par with my forth coding, which I find to
be four or five times faster than with C. (and I've been coding in
both of those for over 20 years).

And converting my existing C routines to Transcript is mostly just
changing the syntax. I'm constantly amazed at the fact that my
Transcript code runs just as fast as the compiled-to-machine-code C
routines, even when it comes to numerical processing.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net