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Revolution runs on [[Apple_Macintosh|Macintosh]] 7,8,9, Macintosh OS X, Windows 95 through XP, and several flavors of Unix. Revolution's language, ''Transcript'', is dynamically typed, English-like, and provides features including associative arrays, regular expressions, QuickTime support, database access, and TCP/IP connectivity. It is claimed to allow beginning programmers to get started easily. For seasoned programmers steeped in "conventional' languages, the learning curve is much steeper as many former means of "doing things" must be abandonded.

Revolution project files can be used on any platform, and run with the platform's look and, feel, and behavior requiring little modification. Menus are handled correctly for each platform.

Compiling produces a single-file standalone executable for each platform targeted. There is no separate runtime necessary.

The ability to compile executables as well as the number of platforms that can be targeted are depenedent upon the version; see "Versions" below.

Revolution offers high-level access to many commonly used features. For example, to load the contents of a web page into a variable takes one line of code:

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==Versions==

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*Developer Express is designed for use and deployment on one platform and deployment on anyonly

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* Enterprise can be used on any platform and deploys to any as well

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