First of all, thanks to all who replied... I have spent 15 or so years programming in a 4th GL language called Dataflex (and then Visual Dataflex), so although it is similar in thought and infrastructure, the language itself is quite a diffence from VB...
So like I said... be ready for plenty of dumb questions <gr>... Anyway, I will look at all tools mentioned, but will likely push customers towards PalmOS. It seems that if one thinks ahead, the coding between the two can be *almost* the same... simply letting the compiler (my database terms) create the appropriate runtime file... Cheers, Mike -- Grasp Software Corporation www.grasp.ca "Chris Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "Jim Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The PalmOS is very easy to learn, and I personally don;t think it saves > > much time using something like CASL or NSBasic. YMMV. > > > I' wouldn't say 'very easy to learn', but I once trained someone > who'd spent six months working in NSBasic and then needed > to move the projects to C. We found that once he'd clicked > on to the relationships between the NSBasic functions and the > C API calls he was able to apply what was learnt in NSBasic > fairly well. > > It suggested to me that a fair chunk of the learning curve is > just picking up concepts associated with the platform and that, > as you say, the choice of language won't make that go away. > > On the other hand, if you've come from VB learning C can be > more of a culture shock than the Palm OS stuff and a language > like NSBasic becomes a real advantage because you don't > keep hitting brick walls caused by C confusion. You can get > up to speed with the nitty-gritty of Palm apps in a language > that's more forgiving. > > Chris Tutty > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
