Talk:Realbasic

Archived
I decided to archive the current talk page since there has been no movement on it for over about a year. Check the Archives box if there's something you're desperately waiting to re-read. BudVVeezer (talk) 00:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

What's the benefit of archiving it and how does this differ from all the other discussion pages that haven't had activity "for over about a year"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.65.226 (talk) 05:04, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * To archive a discussion page is something commonly done. There is nothing strange on archiving a discussion page when it gets too long to be easily read. --Kiam (talk) 19:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

With the name change, the Archive link to comments is broken. I tried to fix this but I could not work out how. To view them, try the link with the correct case, or try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:REALbasic/Archive_4 if this works... Vk2tds (talk) 10:03, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Mention of ANSI Basic
The section: Note Bene: Although REALbasic (RB) uses the word "basic" in its description as a variant of the BASIC programming language, RB is not compliant with the ANSI Standard for the BASIC programming language. For example, the ANSI Standard source code of simple demo programs in TrueBASIC will not compile in RB without complete rewrite. RB also does not support the standard matrix math operations "MAT" that make ANSI BASIC a helpful tool for the teaching of introductory programming concepts.

... doesn't make the page readable. If there is some dispute about ANSI Standard BASIC, when it should be mentioned with a short sentence at the top (e.g. "REALbasic is not based on ANSI Standard BASIC") and a separate section should be used at the bottom. Some people will be interested whether this is ANSI standard, but most BASICs probably aren't, I'd guess. If it's so important then why don't the Visual Basic, StarOffice Basic, Blitz BASIC articles mention their adherence to the standard?

This whole section sounds like a rant to me. I hesitate to edit the page as it looks like this page has been under dispute before. Does anyone agree this should be changed? --Robzed (talk) 15:16, 3 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Having the word BASIC in the language name doesn't make two different programming languages 100% compatible. This is the same case of all those programming languages containing C in their names (C, C++, C#).
 * The text doesn't add anything useful to the article, which should report what REALbasic is, not what REALbasic is not. --Kiam (talk) 19:01, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and changed it. ANSI compliance is pretty unimportant to modern BASIC programmers. -- Eriksiers (talk) 15:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. No opposition, and as far as I can see the page should always have been at the proposed new name. Andrewa (talk) 21:53, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

REALbasic → Realbasic — Real Software, makers of Realbasic have stopped using the all capital letters use of "Real" and now refer to the language a "Realbasic rather than "REALbasic". Afoleyreal (talk) 18:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.