On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:15 PM, Dustin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's no reason to take it off-line. You can't convince me that it is fast > or that the run-time is small, so there is nothing else really to talk about. > I know I'm not using the latest generation of Palm, I currently have a Palm > IIIc which isn't quite a dinosaur yet. Most of the people using my programs I > would guess are using older palms as well. > Everything I've written so far for the Palm has been in NSBasic. Is NSBasic as fast as C? Nope. Is NSBasic fast? Well, version 3.0 has sure been a lot faster than 2.0. So far it's done an excellent job for me. But I had no real complaints about NSBasic 2. Now could I do my coding in C? Absolutely. I know over a dozen computer languages (tho the bulk of my work these days is in Java). And when I find an application that just *needs* all of the performance benefits that using C or C++ will give me on the PalmOS, then I'll use it. The problem is, I haven't found that yet. Also on the subject of runtime size - 100k is about the average for runtime-based Palm tools. Unless you're talking about that joke, AppForge - last I heard it had a 350k runtime and was *growing*. Not exactly my idea of small. > Here is the link to the Pascal compiler I mentioned earlier. > http://www.pocket-technologies.com/ > > I've run some apps created with it and the programs seem to run as fast as > those created in C, and the .prc files are small. It's been a few years since > I would guess this is a great choice for Delphi programmers... > You would have guessed wrong. First, Delphi is *not* Pascal. Yes, they have the same parentage, but Delphi is an Object-Oriented language with it's own extentions (even aside from those that are called 'Object Pascal' based). So what you end up with is standard pascal for writing PalmOS apps in. And that's OK if that's what you're looking for. I wouldn't get *too* excited about Pocket Studio tho. Last I heard they're having some problems - their product isn't selling all that well. -- David Orriss Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.davenet.net http://www.codeskanks.com Please email me if you want my ICQ/AIM/IM ID's. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
