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RealMadrid · Dec 5, 2001, 07:31 AM

Hi:

Since the first days of RealBasic I have been programming with that and still doing so. No that I plan to change over to OS X I was wondering if I should stick with it (I have a lot of practice with it and like the syntax) or go to the developer tools (which I think will be more powefull and properly be the future).

Has any other programmer gone through this? Can anybody give me a hint on what way to go?.

Regards

Angus_D · Dec 5, 2001, 12:33 PM

REALbasic is crap IMO. I used to use it because I thought the prospect of C was daunting, but since OS X came out I moved to Cocoa and have never looked back. Of course, it's OS X only, but since i don't use OS 9, that's not a problem

Jelle Monkmater · Dec 5, 2001, 01:22 PM

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All made with RealBasic. It's good stuff if you know what to do with it.

Personally, I'm a total commandline geek, so all I use is simple C, Perl, AWK and whatever syntax my current shell uses. Oh, and the occasional Java app if I need to make a GUI (though I heard Tcl/tk is pretty good with that).

Anyway, it all depends on what you want to do. I've had a look at The Vermont Recipes on www.stepwise.com, and that looked pretty easy as far as Cocoa tutorials are concerned. More D&D than real coding, which might fit in with your RealBasic experience (I've no experience with either so I don't know).

So ask yourself what you want to do, and base your choice on that.

11011001 · Dec 5, 2001, 10:11 PM

I learned a bit of realbasic when I was learning c, cus I thought it was a pretty daunting task. Well the interface and actual programming in future basic is easier, but a real C compiler is quite a bit more powerful. If you really want to get into the guts of programming learn C, and use developer and you can do pretty much anything. Developer can compile carbon apps to, which means that they should be cross compatible with OS 9.

Learning C is easy, but learning the Apple API's (the libraries used to draw pictures, work with windows, and make sounds) is a hell of a task, but worth it. I am making a game for OS X with a bunch of other guys, and I really need everything that OS X and c, c++ offer. Oh ya, and objective C, which is used in cocoa programming for OS X is also really cool.

Make the switch, it will take time. Not only will you get to program for OS X, but you will get to do a lot more things that you might not have been able to do before.

[ 12-05-2001: Message edited by: 11011001 ]