"Touche mr putey tat"

:)

On 25/8/06 01:08, "Charles Yeomans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I think Mars will be too busy implementing overloading of function
> return types for you to do this as well.
> 
> Charles Yeomans
> 
> On Aug 24, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
> 
>> Interesting question.
>> 
>> I remember someone on this nug mentioning a while back that PowerBasic
>> Produces very tight and speedy executables and was used by many
>> people in
>> science and engineering industries.
>> 
>> It would be cool if RB could be tune its compiler to run like a
>> "bat out of
>> hell" like PowerBasic apparently does.  Now of course PowerBasic
>> doesn't do
>> OOP which is one reason why it can beat RB in speed.
>> 
>> Since one of your respondents atated he could only get to 2/3 of
>> the speed
>> of the equivalent FORTRAN code it would be great if the RB compiler
>> could be
>> "tuned" in this regard to make RB more appealing to the science
>> community.
>> 
>> For my own "two penneth" what would be really cool performance wise
>> would be
>> if RB could be made optimisable for  DSP signal processing
>> applications. IE
>> to take advantage of and optimise for the Altivec and Core2 Due DSP
>> oriented
>> instruction sets where applicable. Maybe some language enhancements (
>> "hints" etc ) might help in this area too.
>> 
>> On 24/8/06 14:35, "John Kubie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm a scientist (Behavioral Neuroscience) and have used REALbasic for
>>> several years. While REALbasic certainly is not a traditional
>>> scientific programming environment, I've found that I can be very
>>> productive. I've been able to throw together useful tools in as
>>> little as an hour and made applications for a surprising variety of
>>> tasks.
>>> 
>>> My questions:
>>> 
>>> How large is the REALbasic scientific community?
>>> 
>>> What are others' thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of
>>> REALbasic as a scientific platform?
>>> 
>>> What should REALbasic, or its community, do to aid in cooperation
>>> among science-oriented programmers?
>>> 
>>> John Kubie
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