rant

Debunking more claims. The imaginary customers of runrev

Go on another of page on runrev website:

Customers & Testimonial

A list of university is given. One in particular that interest me:

  • Universite Libre De Beuxelles

Busting more claims. Runrev Case Studies.

Let's debunk a few more claims.

If you go on the runrev webpage presenting enterprise case studies, as of today, you will find this:

The part that I am interested in is "Learn how NASA, the University of Vienna and others use Rev."

It is about how "NASA used revolution for the Landsat program". In the article, there is mention of "United States Geological Survey" but the headline really makes mention of NASA.

False claims debunked! Runrev requires more lines of source code than Flex!

Runrev recently proposed the following challenge:


"If you have code samples in other languages that you feel would be good illustrations of how revTalk can be shorter and/or more readable. [...] We're especially interested in : ActionScript (Flash) [...]

Runrev challenge is to find the shortest possible way to wrrite the equivalent of :


get the last item of line 2 of URL "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=RBS.L";

Why you should stay away from runrev

There has been a few articles about runrev recently. As they tend to be one sided, I thought it may be worth providing an alternative view on it.

Having used it for more than two years, my opinion of revolution is that it is not worth the time or money investment for persons who have never been exposed to hypercard before.

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