On 4/2/02 9:13 pm, Lorin Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not all my intent to hijack the Rev lists and turn this into a > discussion of the relative merits of REALbasic versus any other tool.
Indeed, this is not the place. >> There is an article on our web site that looks at the differences between >> Rev and REALBasic - if you don't have time to read it all you can check out >> the summary towards the end. This shows amongst other things the number of >> hours needed to develop a simple sample app in Rev or RB. > > I don't believe the article in question is particularly current about > REALbasic's capabilities. The article is as current about REALBasic as it is about Revolution - both products have been revised somewhat since it was written. For example, on the Revolution side, the database features - a key part of Revolution - were not even shipping when the article was written. No doubt there will be a revision of the article at some point to cover the new features in both. But the main points of the article were not about individual features, and thus are not out of date. The main point is that Revolution is simply a more productive environment to work in. You write less code, can then execute it live immediately, and can edit and debug on all platforms. Of course if there is a particular feature that one or other product has that the other doesn't and no external is available that will determine your choice. Otherwise, Revolution offers a lot more productivity on more platforms. And contrary to popular belief, Revolution is a compiled language, which has similar performance to REALBasic. Sure there are some areas one or other as faster, but they are in the same ballpark. > Please also check out the numerous > independent reviews of REALbasic. The fact that REALBasic has been shipping longer does mean that there are currently more reviews of it available. However, Revolution is also making its way steadily into the mainstream press, and our first independent review, by the UK's leading Mac magazine, gave it a five out of five rating and called it the "Holy grail of cross-platform software development". A good start... Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! Tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
