At 5:41 AM -0400 10/2/02, Kee Nethery wrote: > > Howdy, The boss is giving me a shot at moving the project from >> Realbasic to Revolution. I may be asking a *lot* of questions in the >> next few days. Bear with me! >> >> My Realbasic app is 50 screens and 12K lines of code. More apps are in >> the works. Wish me luck. Thanks, > >I was looking for a new environment now that Hypercard and Mac OS X >don't play well together. The default beginner programming environment >that everyone was leaning me towards was RealBasic. I watched the >RealBasic demo and the Revolution demo at WWDC. (Geoff Canyon did a >great job.) I was sitting with people who write a lot of code, probably >code you have run or are running today. They knew I was looking for a >new environment and had recommended RealBasic. After the two demos, in >their mind there was no comparison, they were going to start >recommending Revolution for anyone starting out on a new programming >single user development system. > >So I think you are making a good choice.
I'd like to echo that sentiment. I spent a LOT of time doing an evaluation and comparison between RealBasic and Runtime Revolution a few months ago when i began looking for a cross-platform, single-developer tool. I had a predisposition to RR because of my deep HyperCard background but I'd been away from HC for a long time and doing a lot of object-oriented stuff, so that was nudging me toward RealBasic. After several weeks of probing -- including building three separate apps in both environments -- RR won hands-down based on one factor: programmer productivity. The underlying architecture of RealBasic is theoretically and conceptually sounder (more object-oriented) than RR's, but when the dust settled, I found I was writing apps in RR 3-10 times faster than the same app in RealBasic. I'm not looking back. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- How smart do you work? What's your TQ (Time Quotient)? Find out free in 2 minutes at http://www.thinktq.com/Results2002 Free one-year training course in your email box - $120 value Get an insightful book written and published EXCLUSIVELY FOR YOU _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
