RunRev vs RealBasic

[Chipp Walters]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 2:40 pm, Ken Ray wrote:
> That's one of the beauties of Rev... data can be stored *inside* the 
> stack
> files, either as data in fields that have been saved, or as custom
> properties that are stored with the stack itself.

A great point. I recently was able to create a compressed, encrypted 
binary data storage file using a stack and a single line of code. This 
data file stores text data along with imades in 3 different formats.

This data file is actually a stack with no business logic and is opened 
by my app invisibly and data selectively moved to the gui, edited there 
and then moved back to the inv stack to save. Talk about simple. Doing 
the same in VB would be very complicated. I imagine RB too.

Btw, regarding speed issues, I think there have been a number of speed 
coding challenges between RB and RR with no conclusive winner. Perhaps 
Frank can be more specific with regard to areas he feels RR runs slow?

Also, last time I looked, RR compiles scripts 'on the fly' like Java. 
Didn't know RB was a compiler. Must be tough on edit/compile/run/debug 
cycles. Perhaps it's an interpreter like RR and compiles during runtime? 
I don't know.

Best,
Chipp
Chipp Walters, Altuit.com
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