Beautiful Transcript
Transcript is the built-in
language for Revolution. Can it be
beautiful? I say, definitely. But what is beauty? There are many
criteria. Here are some of mine:
- Brevity -- generally, the longer a chunk of code is, the less
likely it is to be beautiful.
- Clarity -- if the code is confusing, it can't be beautiful.
Transcript is English-like, so a truly beautiful piece of Transcript
code often needs very little documentation (as long as you understand
English).
- Efficiency -- beautiful code doesn't use two statements when one
will do. It also doesn't take 5 ticks to do something that can be done
in 1 tick.
This page will link to discussions and examples of Transcript that have
been honed to (near) perfection. There will be more examples as time
goes by, but for now there is:
The Clock Face.