RealBasic
 We’ve been using RealBasic on and off since it first appeared. In fact, for the past
year we’ve found that its been creeping into more and more of our project and research efforts.
From internal tools, prototypes, and demos, RB has proven to be a real time saver. This web site was created using an RB based content management system we built
over the past few weeks. It also saved our proverbial bacon when we did the last version of CollegeLink.
From regular expression parsing, SOAP interfaces, the easy to use Java like graphics interface, and the well implemented object oriented language structure we find there is a lot to like about RealBasic.
With RealBasic’s recent addition of Linux support its moved even higher on our list of potential production environments. So high in fact, that we’ve recently invested
the time to integrate into our production tools, and enhanced the generation tools to produce RB code and expect to add complete project generation in the near future.
We have discovered that customers, specifically those who are programming literate, find RealBasic, less threatening and more approachable than C++ or Java.
In Windows only environments, this is the same level of acceptance that Visual Basic has enjoyed. Yet, unlike VB, RealBasic works across all of the key platforms.
With Mac and Linux support becoming a bigger factor in development plans, especially among the open software, educational and research communities, RealBasic has given us a valuable tool for cross platform
implementation.
Our current efforts with the uBio initiative have also re-enforced the benefits of using RealBasic for production systems. RB’s well integrated text encoding has already
made it possible drive home the point that the initiative is serious about international collaboration. The uBio search engines already allow user clients to search in their native
language and return information and reference infomation for any instance of a species in what ever langauage it might appear.
Enter the name Amikiri (net cutter) from a japanese client and you will see links in cyrillic for Sibirskii, in english for bluefish, in latin for Pomatomus saltator and about a
hundred other in a few dozen other languages.
When you are working on an international initiative, the ability to handle everyone’s native language, and run on both Mac and Windows clients, is a giant step
toward world peace.
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