Is revolution right for my project?

[Lorin Rivers]

>I am looking to develop a fairly advanced email application with builtin
>spam filtering, etc.  I am new to desktop application programming and
>looking at learning runtime revolution or realbasic most likely.  I
>currently know perl and php, so I am not completely new to programming.
>
>My question is... are there any components that deal with the smtp, pop3,
>and imap protocols that can be used with runtime revolution. I was only able
>to find this on the SMTP and POP3 protocols for revolution.
>http://dark.unitz.ca/~shaosean/  It looks like he is still working on
>them...  Has anyone developed these protocols?  I wasn't really looking to
>do the low level part of the programming dealing with the sockets themselves
>as this would probably take me longer than the program itself...  However if
>I did decide to work on this... Is there aywhere I could look for
>information on developing these?

There are also pop3 and smtp classes for REALbasic on our ftp server:

<ftp://ftp.realsoftware.com/CodeExamples/Sockets_Serials/E-Mail/>

>In general I like the programming environment of revolution and I definitely
>like the fact that the application can be built for multiple platforms.  I
>also like the fact that it can make use of regular expressions.  Which is a
>big part of perl and I would need for many features I intend to implement...
>Can my application be developed with runtime revolution or would I be better
>looking at a different solution?

REALbasic compiles native, double-clickable single-file executables 
for Mac, Mac OS X, and Windows. Our RegEx engine is PCRE.

>Also is there any information on the speed in which revolution can process
>info with regular expressions?  I guess I could write something in perl and
>then write it in revolution and test the speeds but I was wondering if
>anyone had already done this?  Also once an application is developed in
>general is the compiled program faster in revolution or realbasic?  Sorry
>for all the newbie questions....

I believe that while REALbasic compiles, Runtime does not. REALbasic 
is royalty free as well.

>Thanks for any info,
>-Delay

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