Dear Dan and Dar:
I just wanted to wrote in defense of Prograph CPX. I bought the Mac and Windows versions and have written successful apps in both. I have a business based on an app I wrote in Prograph CPX (Buzz-o-sonic, <http://www.buzzmac.com>). It was a great language and I too was sad to see it go. The bugs I encountered were easily fixed and as far as I am aware have not effected the quality of my programs. I still use Prograph, though I am phasing it out in favor of LabVIEW and RunRev. However, I agree with Dar on the zero support. Prograph CPX was also great for learning OOP - my background is not computer programming, so Prograph was a great learning tool.
Paul
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I never saw the kind of buggy performance you describe here, Dar, but I do remember that the shift from simple Prograph to the far more complex set of class libraries in CPX caused a LOT of bugs and performance issues.
Dan
On Jan 15, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
As some of you may know, I wrote one of two books published on Prograph before that product/company essentially went belly-up. (Hmmm. I hope I don't have the decidedly unhelpful effect on *all* the companies whose products I write books about. heh heh)
My friend (like me) was a fairly ardent fan of Prograph and we were both sad to see it go away. It truly is the ONLY completely visual programming environment I've ever seen and although it takes a while to wrap your head around it, its power was truly amazing. And it really is fully object-oriented.
I paid the big bucks for Prograph. It had a name like Prograph CPX 1.0 or something. I figured since I liked LabVIEW and functional programming, that it would be great for me.
The problem was that it crashed every few minutes and didn't work in between. It had zillions of bugs and zero support. I threw it away. That was so frustrating since I wanted it to work. I imagine a lot of folks were cheated this way.
So, it wasn't you, Dan. The company cheated folks and forced them to turn the name into a curse word. They did it to themselves.
(I didn't see any OOP.)
Dar
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