On Feb 14, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
I have no doubt that if a single "killer app" were ever developed in RB, it would attract other developers looking to make the next one.
That makes no sense to me. Are you saying that C/C++ is so much more popular because Photoshop was written in that?
In today's world it's simply NOT important (IMHO) whether you can write something like Photoshop in a given programming language. What generally IS important is how quickly and cost-effective you can take something from concept to production without sacrificing user- experience. Realbasic shines here and it's probably one of the most significant factors why so much MwRB development is done in vertical and utility markets right now.
Show me how you accomplish that with X-Code, VB.something or C- whatever. If it was anywhere near feasible, RB wouldn't have the following it has.
The one point I'll concede - and I'm totally with Stefan and Bjorn here - is that *real* team development isn't effective with RB and it's one of the reasons that keep the project size limited. Ergo no Photoshop killers as of yet.
I also believe that the all inclusive XML and binary formats are/were a bad design choice. I simple don't get why a project can't be broken down at the filesystem level and a simple text source format can be used. It's simple, flexible, effective and requires Z-E-R-O effort on RS part to implement team development. If you absolutely must offer a combined project format, why not just allow to bundle all files into a virtual-volume?
Anyway - I disgress... Regards, Juergen _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
