On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Jan 05, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
However, my main gripe with Realbasic is that it is a
proprietary language. Although Realsoftware seems stable now,
I have seen too many businesses go out of business or give up
on their product.
HyperCard, SuperCard and Metroworks come to mind here. Thats
why I will abandon Realbasic a soon I'll find an acceptable
alternative based on a non proprietary language.
These products all went down for different reasons:
HyperCard - we know who killed this ;-)
SuperCard - Still alive but barely (fall from grace was depending
on Mac
only and total incompetence in porting to Windows)
Metrowerks - Even if they wanted to, very little money and Apple
coming with
a free development tool (ie the platform they support is their worst
competitor).
MW did very well, they just happened to exit the Mac game recently
They had numerous products for all kinds of development all based
on their core IDE and intermediate code generation
Apple didn't kill them; Motorola did by buying them although I did
very well as a shareholder :)
Actually, I believe REALbasic did them in; C++ was my primary
lingua of choice until VB showed up, but it was Windows only. Then
VisualMacStandardBasic showed up, and - shortly after that -
REALbasic (2.something or another, I believe) After that, the fat
lady started singing and that was that. Game Over.
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