I'm a RB user since the time when it was still called "CrossBasic", and I followed the development quite closely. Yes, there are bugs in RB (as with any other complex software), and yes, there are bugs which are there since several versions. So much for that.
On the other hand, I know no other development tool (on the Mac or otherwise), which allows you to create professional applications in such a short time - learning-wise and development-wise.
A lot of people badmouthing RB compare it to tools like CodeWarrior or ProjectBuilder. True, you can do things with these that you can't do with RB, but you can expect tripple the development time - and ten times the learning period to use this tool properly.
Keeping this in mind, you can easily work around the bugs in RB, and enjoy a beautifully designed class library and a powerful compiler. Not for every job, but for a lot of them.
Sascha Leib
(who still prefers RB 2.1.2, and has made quite a few professional jobs with it!)
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Initial Impression - Sascha Leib
I'm a RB user since the time when it was still called "CrossBasic", and I followed the development quite closely. Yes, there are bugs in RB (as with any other complex software), and yes, there are bugs which are there since several versions. So much for that.On the other hand, I know no other development tool (on the Mac or otherwise), which allows you to create professional applications in such a short time - learning-wise and development-wise.
A lot of people badmouthing RB compare it to tools like CodeWarrior or ProjectBuilder. True, you can do things with these that you can't do with RB, but you can expect tripple the development time - and ten times the learning period to use this tool properly.
Keeping this in mind, you can easily work around the bugs in RB, and enjoy a beautifully designed class library and a powerful compiler. Not for every job, but for a lot of them.
Sascha Leib
(who still prefers RB 2.1.2, and has made quite a few professional jobs with it!)
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Saturday, June 28 2003 @ 01:29 PM PDT