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'''Revolution''' is a commercially marketed [[cross-platform | Cross-platform]] [[rapid application development]] environment created by Runtime Revolution Ltd.
Revolution runs on Macintosh 7,8,9, Macintosh OS X, Windows 95 through XP, and aboutseveral halfflavors aof dozenUnix. UnixenRevolution's language, ''Transcript'', is dynamically typed, English--like, Linuxand provides such features like associative arrays, Solarisregular expressions, BSDQuickTime support, etcdatabase access, and TCP/IP connectivity. It is claimed to allow beginning programmers to get started easily.
Revolution project files can be used withon any platform, and run with the platform's look and feel and behavior with veryrequiring little modification. Menus , in particular, are handled correctly for each platform correctly without any intervention on the part of the developer. ▼Revolution's language, Transcript, dynamically typed and very English-like, allowing beginners to get started easily, but contains advanced features like associative arrays, regular expressions, QuickTime support, database access, and TCP/IP connectivity.
Compiling a standalone produces a single-file standalone executable for each platform targeted. There is no separate runtime necessary. ▼▲Revolution project files can be used with any platform, and run with the platform's look and feel and behavior with very little modification. Menus, in particular, are handled correctly for each platform correctly without any intervention on the part of the developer.
Revolution offers high-level access to manyseveral commonly used features. For example, to load the contents of a web page into a variable takes one line of code: ▼▲Compiling a standalone produces a single-file executable for each platform targeted. There is no separate runtime necessary.
▲Revolution offers high-level access to many features. For example, to load the contents of a web page into a variable takes one line of code:
<code>put url "http://www.yahoo.com" into tMyVariable</code>
==External link==
*[http://www.runrev.com Revolution]
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