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