Has anyone worked with Real Basic at all? I know Jason Clinton had pointed me over to it once, about a year ago. It's a clone of basic, from what it looks like, but there are some rather neat features, including a built in database (single user) for your applications to use. It can also connect to other DB's out there, and anything, if you write a plugin for it. It's also got a builting 3D library, and many other cool features.
http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic/indepth/
Josh
If you are interested in getting your feet wet with programming try it out. I don't think you will find anybody serious using it though.
I could be wrong, but I think this list is diverse enough that you could post questions about programming in a common language - and get a response about it. In fact, I could claim that more then a few of us are fairly competent coders ... Hald, please raise your hand. I think I saw David Nicol on this list as well.
I would recommend you try picking up perl or python first. They will have more application to real world experience then Real Basic and are fairly easy to learn and can do all the things that make Real Basic "great".
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) wrote:
Has anyone worked with Real Basic at all? I know Jason Clinton had pointed me over to it once, about a year ago. It's a clone of basic, from what it looks like, but there are some rather neat features, including a built in database (single user) for your applications to use. It can also connect to other DB's out there, and anything, if you write a plugin for it. It's also got a builting 3D library, and many other cool features.
http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic/indepth/
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On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 02:34 -0600, D. Hageman wrote:
If you are interested in getting your feet wet with programming try it out. I don't think you will find anybody serious using it though.
While REALbasic is mostly known for the Mac, here's listings of some commercial applications written with it.
http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic/showcase/
I would recommend you try picking up perl or python first. They will have more application to real world experience then Real Basic and are fairly easy to learn and can do all the things that make Real Basic "great".
Plenty of room for many languages. I know people making very good money using languages that not everyone else knows, ie Erlang.
-Bill
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 02:34 -0600, D. Hageman wrote:
If you are interested in getting your feet wet with programming try it out. I don't think you will find anybody serious using it though.
While REALbasic is mostly known for the Mac, here's listings of some commercial applications written with it.
I read the website and did the research before I made the claim above. I guess you could say that I was not impressed by the commercial applications. Quite a few of them look like advanced versions of Hello World - not that there is anything wrong with that. Mom and Pop software shops have their place in this world like anything else.
I would recommend you try picking up perl or python first. They will have more application to real world experience then Real Basic and are fairly easy to learn and can do all the things that make Real Basic "great".
Plenty of room for many languages. I know people making very good money using languages that not everyone else knows, ie Erlang.
I agree completely. I will still stand by my recommendation. While I am sure you could provide more then adequate assistance in learning REALbasic, the number of people able to provide assistance with perl or python is significant larger. This is a great benefit to someone learning how to program as they might need several different perspectives to correctly understand a programming concept.
Erlang ... I would like to be able to try that out sometime. I have to admit I am a bit of a language junkie. My latest adventure is playing with forth.
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