On Jan 2, 9:30 pm, "ca...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jan 2, 5:50 pm, alexcom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jan 1, 10:16 am, "ca...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > wrote:
> > > Our web programming system Run BASIC will be released this weekend.
> > > For those who haven't seen it check out the site
athttp://www.runbasic.com
> > > and look at the different tabs and the video link on the home page.
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> > > We also have a Run BASIC forum up which is already loaded up with
> > > interesting and useful information. http://runbasic.proboards82.com
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> > Out of curiosity, what problem were you trying to address or improve
> > upon over and above what the standard PHP, PERL, ASP, etc. can do? It
> > seems like there's plenty of languages out there that do everything
> > Run BASIC does and more.
I'm not trying to start an argument or anything, It just seems from
your response that I'm not quite getting the differences.
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> PHP, Perl, ASP, etc. do not do everything Run BASIC does. These
> things are powerful but they're only pieces of a solution that cannot
> do anything by themselves. Run BASIC is an all-in-one web appserver.
> You don't need anything else to get started.
>
Well, the same can be said of an Apache/Php/mySQL install. There's
quite a few installers that will do it all pretty easily.
> What Run BASIC is designed to do very well is let the programmer focus
> on writing a program without being burdened with needing to know about
> Apache, CGI, sessions, state management between pages, administering a
> database, etc. All that stuff is managed for you by Run BASIC. So by
> using a procedural programming model and some OO-style techniques you
> can create an interactive web app in a way very similar to desktop app
> programming. There are built in objects to deal with XML parsing,
> database access, widgets, drawing graphics, etc. You don't deal with
> web pages in your coding model. Without a lot of code and in a short
> time you can create something useful. We wouldn't have bothered to
> develop RB if it was just a "me too" web system.
Do you have any examples of what code would look like in say PHP vs.
Run BASIC? I suppose that would help.
> You could argue that RB isn't powerful enough for commercial work.
> That depends, but it isn't really meant for that. Run BASIC aims to
> bring web programming to everyone else, just like a dialect of BASIC
> should. It is intended for personal projects and internal systems.
> I'm sure people will use it for many, many things that I can't
> imagine.
Fair enough. I'm not one to pass judgment on it because its Basic, a
language is just a tool. Basic is pretty easy to learn, so I can see
that as an advantage over some of the others.
> Did you watch the screencast on the home page? That should give you a
> pretty good sense of it. Probably we need a more comprehensive
> walkthrough, or maybe just a few more screencasts.
Couldn't get the video to run. It loaded a blank page for me in
Firefox 2.0.0.11. You're talking about
http://www.libertybasic.com/basicology.html,
right?
The website doesn't seem to give any concrete examples of how it's
better. It definitely needs some example tasks and how Run BASIC would
be better than the competition.
One other thing I noticed is that you didn't say it sup****ted Opera on
this page:
http://www.runbasic.com/seaside/go/runbasic?_s=fLcZWNMmzSNupWar&_k=lyaKzBOL.
You may want to clear up what that means. I imagine Run BASIC should
work in all modern browsers?
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> Thanks for asking.
>
> -Carl Gundelhttp://www.runbasic.com
Any time. I wish you the best of luck!
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