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. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
