Revolution is basically Hypercard with color and cross platform runtimes. Remember Hypercard? I myself am a recovering stack head and for awhile before I really learned programming, I did almost everything in HC. HC is inspired by Smalltalk to a large degree and a number of classic patterns like chain of command are wired into HC's DNA.

The thing about it is you hit the wall in about a year because there is no way to create completely new kinds of objects. But it is really easy to get started as the language is probably the most english-like programming language ever created.

So I'd say the barrier to entry is lower - but the depth isn't there either.

-Todd Blanchard

On Jan 28, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Chuck Smith wrote:

I just ran into Revolution http://www.runrev.com/.

I was wondering how it compares to squeak? It seems a lot like squeak and easy for beginners. Can some one point out the differences for me? I know spueak is more powerful but for an absolute beginner would Revolution be better? And them room over to squeak after having success in building a few applications?

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