On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 03:20 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
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I think the 'basic' part of the name in VB and RB is more about sounding unscary to non-CS graduates than about indicating language family trees wrt to syntax and such.
As a follow-up to my brief history of the birth of Java, here's a bit about
the birth of VB. Alan Cooper (www.cooper.com) developed it as "HyperCard
for Windows." HyperCard, from Apple, was an effort to make programming easy
for most people, through a combination of drag-and-drop interface design and
highly readable code (HyperTalk). From the start, the idea behind it was to
have a tool that was fairly easy to develop in, but extremely easy to learn
and borrow from others' work.
And REALbasic was designed to be (largely) compatible with VB (except better) and to bring the qualities of HyperCard back to the Mac (since HyperCard had been languishing for many years). And one of the early versions of RB could X-compile to Java byte-code...
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
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