I've been trying to decide where I should migrate my personal programming environment; Perl, Java, Cocoa, AppleScript Studio, RealBasic, Revolution, Python, etc. I've been using Hypercard for ages and although Hypercard might not be the fastest code, I can develop code that gets the job done in a very short period of time. But ... Hypercard is truly dead and after migrating to MacOS X I realized it was time for me to make a switch.
I've been following the Revolution lists because it is the closest thing available to Hypercard but I've been exploring all the alternatives because I've come to believe the dominate opinion that Hypercard and things like it, are not real programming environments. Perl can do anything except it is hell to maintain anyone else's Perl code and it doesn't do standalones real well. Java can do most anything but it does not seem to be a rapid development environment. Seems to take Java programmers longer than it takes me to write the same widget in Hypercard. Cocoa looks great but I don't know C, it is Mac only, and all the examples assume that you know C which I do not. AppleScript Studio and the forthcoming revision to AppleScript look great but it's still AppleScript and it is Mac only and painful to write. Python looks good but standalones seemed to be an issue. That left RealBasic and Revolution. I sat through Geoff's presentation with some other folks at Apple's WWDC and then we sat through the RealBasic presentation. Geoff did an excellent job but the clincher for me was seeing the RealBasic demo. RealBasic just looked more complicated. So this week I started using Revolution to build a small app that connects to a database and grabs some data and displays it. It will allow an employee of mine to get data that previously I personally would run some SQL to generate. It's not the world's most complicated app and it isn't going to save me loads of time but it was a good starter. I compiled it for windows, installed it on her machine and it works great! So to everyone on this list, you probably know this already but ... REVOLUTION IS WAY COOL!!! Kee Nethery _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
