From my seat watching the great success of REALBasic, my perception was that it, as opposed to other basic implementations, provided a way for VB programs to be ported to the Mac and was a pretty good version of basic by itself. Please note that this was my perception and may not, in fact, be the actual marketing message.
This is not a bad thing at all. I programmed a lot in Applesoft BASIC on Apple II's and MS Basic on original IBM PCs for specific scientific applications. This above mentioned perception led me to have a positive opinion of RB. There are many terrific applications written in RB which I use and depend on so it obviously is a "real" programming language. I discovered HyperCard and wrote a few applications in it and like it a lot along with AppleScript. Before I heard about Revolution, I downloaded and tried RB. I couldn't get past square one with it. It was just too hard for me to understand. Then I found Revolution and it really is the "Holy Grail" to me. I can make almost any kind of application I want and it will run fast and be available for every platform. Sounds "real" to me. Bill Vlahos On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 01:48 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote: >> RealBASIC enjoys a perception of viability > > REALbasic enjoys viability because our users get benefit from it. > >> not entirely of their own making: >> by riding on the coattails of Microsoft's unmatched investment in >> popularizing VB, > > This is an interesting theory, but most of our popularity has nothing > to do > with VB and everything to do with our users' success. In fact, most > people > who have used both VB and REALbasic vastly prefer REALbasic. Recently, > an > impartial evaluator informed us that, in his opinion, REALbasic offered > the > best object-oriented implementation available, anywhere. > >> the program is in the enviable position of being able to >> leverage the huge infrastructure and community assets of the VB world > > Not really. While REALbasic will import VB forms and code, it does not > employ VB extensions (ActiveX controls and so on). We have no > connections > with the VB community. Most VB users would probably have no idea what > REALbasic is, and probably think Apple went out of business years ago... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
