Hello Geoff: You list Transcript as one of REV's advantages vs. BASIC in REALBasic. (I read Basic as REALBasic in REALBasic). I feel a little uneasy about the Basic connection myself. Still, REALBasic is offered as an OO language, so presumably it's a thoroughly revised variant of Basic. Whatever the antecendent of REALBasic my understand is that it is now a modern OO language. Can the same be said of Transcript? If yes, then I expect the languages can be compared point by point by someone with a thorough knowledge of both. For a start one might ask where Transcript stand on: 1 Data hiding (encapsulation): Where data cannot be accessed except throught methods associated with the data? 2 Inheritance (hierarchy of object definitions): Where new objects can be defined to inherit from existing objects? 3 Polymorphism: Where methods in different objects can have the same name? 4 Single data type: where any variable can hold anything and may hold different things at different times. DW
