> I'd like to know why everyone is using REALbasic. There are other tools > out there. There are other languages out there. Why REALbasic?
I switched to RB a couple of years ago, and I'm loving it. I first started writing software with BASIC for the TRS-80, and despite occasional forays into assembler and C, I'm a die-hard BASIC fan, and I've tried a lot of them over the years. RB is great because it's a modern object-oriented language that has the "look and feel" of BASIC. It does a pretty good job of cross-platform compiling, and while it's not perfect, it does give me access to the various OS's API's and such when specific adaptations are needed for each platform without making me write my program in API's, as it were. And for the record, I'm currently working on a *very* large application (about 180,000 lines of code), which is marketed globally and competes on various levels with programs like Filemaker and Excel. Unless you're writing in C or C++, the language you're using is going to be proprietary (and even those can be remarkably dependent on which libraries you choose). No language is perfect, and never will be. And just like every other piece of software ever written, compilers have bugs, too. Every release of RB is better than the one that preceded it, and while bugs may not be fixed as fast as we'd like, RS is no worse at it than 90% of other software companies, chief among them Microsoft. (Have you ever tried to get Visual Basic's printer object to keep its page orientation correct in between print jobs? (That bug's been around for 10 years and it still isn't fixed!) I'm thrilled that RB releases updates 4 times a year. And if enough people on this list make enough noise about how much they hate RB, then the word will spread and RealSoft will close its doors, which would be a real shame. Personally, I love RB and want to give it every opportunity to succeed. Let's keep this list a useful forum for idea sharing and helping each other, not a stomping ground for the disaffected. Just my .02, of course - - John _______________________________________________ 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>
