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Article: RealBasic 2.0.(Real Software's RealBasic 2.0.2 programming utility)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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OBJECT-ORIENTED BASIC FOR THE MAC
PROGRAMMING IS NEVER GOing to be easy, since it forces otherwise sane people to think like computers. Folks with the imagination to do just that will appreciate Real Software's RealBasic 2.0.2, a development environment for experienced programmers and novices alike. In spite of its tendency to create large applications, it makes creating user interfaces--a heretofore odious task--uncommonly easy.
The BASIC language has evolved greatly since its invention, in the 1960s. Like other modern dialects, RealBasic is object-oriented. This approach lends itself particularly well to building user interfaces (UIs), whose windows ...