[OT] Not just because

[Luis]

Hiya,

Good point on the other languages, but in the 'use' cases I want to  
cover (clients that want something similar to Rev/On-Rev without the  
same expenditure) then RunBASIC seemed to cover similar ground. I  
have trawled their forums and was wondering if anyone here had  
experience of it.

The language aspect, as in simple and 'clear' is also a factor.  
Pyhton was looked at, but the standalone generation in something like  
dabodev.com (another candidate looked at) is still not feature or  
platform complete.

Your mention of 3rd party support triggered a thought: What would it  
take to create a Rev plugin ('connector') to handle foreign language  
libraries?

Cheers,

Luis.


On 14 May 2009, at 03:57, Stephen Cox wrote:

> Why not a few examples of languages that you can also use to write  
> off line
> apps too. Like Python or Ruby? Both are used on the web (Rails,  
> Django,
> Zope, Merb - to name a few). And both are used to write cross  
> platform apps,
> even gui's using something like Qt.
>
> Also Java. And Realbasic has Yuma. Not to mention all the .Net  
> solutions.
> And Silverlight and Flex (though I hate, HATE Action Script 3.0).
>
> What makes OnRev unique is the language. Nothing else really. In fact
> considering the amount of 3rd party support for Ruby, Python  
> and .Net you
> are at a disadvantage using OnRev. Being that you have to reinvent the
> wheel.
>
> Course this is true with off line apps as well. I like Revolution  
> but it has
> a VERY small 3rd party plug-in community. And a backward UI,  
> compared to the
> rest. What's kept it on my machine so far is the language. In fact  
> we just
> bought another copy.
>
>
> On 5/13/09 12:27 PM, "Luis" <luis at anachreon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> I didn't like PHP when I first went into it, plus some host apply
>> restrictions to what functions you can call.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Luis.
>>
>>
>> On 13 May 2009, at 16:53, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Luis,
>>>
>>> If you're in a need for an "alternative", what's wrong with PHP
>>> (which isn't an alternative at all but rather the mainstream tool
>>> for server-side scripting)?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Mark Schonewille
>>>
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>>> On 13 mei 2009, at 17:14, Luis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Seeing as it seems to be OT season, and I work in the office of
>>>> stirring things up:
>>>>
>>>> http://runbasic.com/
>>>>
>>>> http://runbasicnet.com/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.runbasic.com/seaside/go/runbasic?
>>>> _s=hDedgqXdSCYDuTMh&_k=nFUdiyqV
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I was looking into comparable options to On-Rev to see
>>>> where the advantages/disadvantages would be, and I came across
>>>> this Smalltalk based option.
>>>>
>>>> Other than LISP based systems that only have a partial features
>>>> set, this is all I can find that is 'similar'.
>>>>
>>>> We've gone through Tilestack, wondering if anyone has seen  
>>>> RunBASIC.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Luis.
>>>
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