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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