begin  quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:21:33PM -0800:
> Stewart Stremler wrote:
> >Presumably, it's BASIC.
> 
> It's "almost-but-not-quite" Visual Basic.

I thought REALBasic predates Visual Basic -- or at least, I was 
hearing about RealBasic just about when Visual Basic was getting
a big push in the early days.

> RealBasic is a waste.  They had the opportunity to be Visual Basic when 
> Microsoft dumped Visual Basic (and changed to Visual Basic .Net which is 
> not even close to Visual Basic).  If they had just spent the effort to 
> fix the last 5% which made them incompatible with Visual Basic, they 
> would have *owned* Microsoft.

Nobody owns Microsoft for long.  :-(

> Talk about blowing an opportunity.

There is that.

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