[LINK] Apparently useless Mac Software

[Antony Barry]

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 02:56 PM, Rachel Polanskis wrote:

> I am sure many of you Mac fiends will get a laugh out of this.   Is 
> RealBasic really
> as bad as Visual Basic?!

It has a few advantages such as being able to compile windows code and 
Java as well as Mac code. There is a very healthy community supporting 
it. See their webring - 
http://k.webring.com/hub?sid=&ring=xbasic&id=&list

It won the  Apple Design Award 1999 for the Best New Product and runner 
up for the Most Innovative and also the Best Macintosh User Experience, 
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1999/may/19awards.html. Out of the four 
awards available it got one first and three seconds.

It won Macworld Magazines 2001 award for being the best software 
development environment for the Mac..

I must admit to some bias regarding this software - My youngest son 
Andrew, http://www.barrysoftware.com/ wrote the original version but 
split up with the company http://www.realsoftware.com/ who now own the 
software. He still gets royalty payments though. It won the award when 
he was the sole developer for the company. He originally developed 
RealBasic as shareware.  At that time it was called XBasic.

Tony

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