Mark- Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 7:05:45 AM, you wrote:
MT> There is a small bit at MacCentral: MT> <http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/21/realbasic/index.php> with the MT> following paragraph: "REAL Software noted in the REALbasic 5.5.5 MT> release that of the 25 percent or so of its user base who are porting MT> applications, 47 percent are porting Visual Basic applications MT> specifically." As a veteran of having ported more than my share of VB into xtalk, I can state that the VB-to-RB path is much easier than the rethinking it takes to get to runrev. Especially for developers who are comfortable with the spaghetti code that you always end up with in VB. RB usually requires only minor changes to the code before it will compile as a cross-platform app. In the real world I think RB probably offers a better time-to-market for cross-platform porting. If that's all you're after. That said, you don't get the benefits of runrev when you make a straightforward conversion. The real advantages start to appear when you analyze and redesign the code instead of recoding verbatim. And, of course, there's no comparison when it comes to starting a new project from scratch. At least until you need to get out of the sandbox and craft an external. One of the main tasks facing any new development environment is trying to convince basic programmers to unlearn the bad habits they've picked up. RB has an advantage here in that VB programmers can keep all their bad habits without penalty. Not too much thinking involved. Aside: I recently had to code a VB equivalent to replace crlf with linefeed in myString and it was no fun. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
