On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
3) More people have stopped ranting and focussed on other ways of
expressing their personal opinions.
Or maybe it's cyclical? I'd wait 1 year before believing that :)
Or RS upsets the apple cart with major modifications to the IDE
again. :)
Now that I know to use RB within it's limits, everything is fine.
That was always one of the major problems. This being the
expectations of new users being higher that the reality of RB and why
it was developed in the first place.
For me, getting involved in programming on the Mac in 1995 meant
buying something like Code Warrior and learning C or Pascal. The
price was high, the complexity intimidating and the learning curve
too steep for me. When REALbasic came out, I jumped on the bandwagon
and found I could make simple apps in a very short time. I never
expected to create the next "World's Greatest App." for the Mac so it
fit like a glove.
Since that time, RB has grown so much I honestly can't keep up with
many of the features it now has.
I would consider the volume now more in line with what it was before
5.0, after 5.5.5 and before 2005r1.
One last comment. RB users are getting used to RB and are having
fewer difficulties.
Probably.
I remember a time when every other post was about encodings. It was
encoding madness for a while.
I guess these days the understanding on encodings has sort of
seeped in through the community. Or perhaps people are just getting
comfortable with utf-8... (RB's new default encoding).
Sometimes there is just simple resistance to any change that requires
learning new concepts.
Many of the changes that have happened in RB are simply because the
various OSes have been changing and what was the standard yesterday
no longer exists.
Regards to all,
Terry
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