Hi Kevin,
>
> The first of our independently commissioned comparison articles is now
> available. By popular request, the first article compares Revolution in
> detail with REALBasic. Check it out:
>
Its a good, well written article, which makes many good points for the
comparison.
I do feel though that maybe the REAlbasic version of the application could
have been written in a slightly different way, which would have reduced the
number of lines of code required (although the total would still be greater
than that required by transcript), made the code a lot clearer and easier to
read and also (I suspect) speed up the application rather a lot.
After a 10 minute (honestly :) glance at the code, I can see some areas that
maybe could have been done differently.
Im a contract developer, with not much interest in which IDE is 'better', I
code in c,c++, REALbasic, applescript <g> and various other scripting
languages.
I have been lurking on the Runrev list for some time now as I have a project
coming up that I suspect will be best done on revolution, mostly because of
its cross-platform requirements. (it will also require connectivity to
mysql, which is one of the reasons why Ive been lurking for so long :)
I currently use REALbasic for many of my smaller projects (most of which
could be done in revolution as well) mostly because I found it before I
found revolution and no matter how straight forward the ide there is time
saved by sticking to what you already know.
I guess what Im saying is that although Im not interested in which IDE is
'better', I do feel that for the sake of fairness maybe some (fairly basic)
changes could be made to the REALbasic application, Id be happy to discuss
them further with the developer who built it.
Yours cheerfully,
Andrew Bush
--
To misquote Mr Terry Pratchett:
The word for a society where everyone is pulling together is 'Tyranny', in a
free country everyone tends to pull in different directions.
