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User Name jfcantlon

Member Since 2009-10-03

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REALbasic 2009.4.0.0 (Mac OS X)

People should be aware that RealBasic is *not* backwards compatible--if you write a program in RealBasic, it won't even open in the version they put out 5 years from now. My library of hundreds of RealBasic programs (that were written between 2001 and 2005) is totally useless now because none of them will open in the 2008 and 2009 versions (I've talked to RealBasic staff about this and they claim that this phenomenon is totally normal...sure it is). Here is the response I got from RealBasic when I asked why my programs won't even OPEN in the new version: "Actually, 5 years is a long time to expect something to work without any changes to the project. I could understand expecting a text document to open after 5 years but development tools are much more complex because of OS changes and things like that. I have used a lot of programming tools (not just REALbasic) and have never seen one that did not require changes over the years." [alert admin]

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