Re: VB6, VB2005, or Something Else?

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TedF wrote:
Thanks Dan,

Looks good so far.
I wonder if RealBasic is more like VB than Delphi,
and which would be better.


RealBasic is more like VB than Delphi but.... the windows version has
some Macish quirks. The current version still tries to do too much at
the IDE mouse level instead of being able to type most things at the
keyboard. But according to what I read they are working on that for
later versions. Also it looks like their ability to make and resue
components is not on the level of VB6.

But on the good side is that they are very VB-like and they appear to
in for the long haul.

Personally the one I am keeping my eye on is freebasic.
http://www.freebasic.net/ they are lacking object oriented stuff but
are working on it. And it been real solid from what tests I could run.
It also building on top of the gun compilier system so the backend is
very solid.

Although I would lose a lot from not having the VB6 IDE it would mean
breaking another dependency on MS.

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