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Just
plain Basic was written to run in a DOS like environment. In other words you
can't write Windows type forms. It also has not been improved in quite a long
time.
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size=2>RealBasic (<A
href="">http://www.realbasic.com/) is a flavor
develped by Real Software is a multiplatform (Mac, Windows) flavor that
originally had no ability to build windows style forms and was (back around
1997) used primarily for writing very fast dll's. It had the ability to produce
compiled code while Msft's Visual Basic at that time (Version 3) was very slow
and used only interpreted code. I just visited their site and discovered
that they have added forms capability. The fact that Its Mac and Windows
capable is nice althought I don't have any experience with it to remark on its
realiability, etc.
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Visual
Basic (<A
href="">http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/) is
the 800 lb gorilla of the Basics. Its Msft's flavor and has evolved over the
years to be the hands down favorite of all the varieties of basic. With
well over 1 million copies having been sold it is considered as the "standard".
VB (as it is commonly referred to) comes in several different configurations and
each is targeted at a particular type of developer. The lower cost
versions are targeted at developers of stand-alone apps while the higher end
products are targeted towards the corporate type developer that write
client/server apps, web based apps, etc. The current release VB.Net is a
re-write of the language and represents a sea-change in the
language.
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The
above basic (VB) is a stand alone product. Msft decided several years ago to
make a version of basic that they used to provide programming capability toits
Office products (Word, Excel, etc). This version is called VBA (Visual Basic for
Applications). VB (prior to the .Net version) and VBA are very, very
similar and if you know one you should be able to navigate the other
easily.
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Does
it make a difference? Yes. It really depends on what you would to
accomplish as to which one you might use. Having said that it is highly
likely that VB or VBA would be the likely choice if you want to write apps that
run only in the Windows environment. If you'd like to discuss this
further lets take it off this board.
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<SPAN
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<SPAN
class=493320715-30092002> -----Original
Message-----From: george massik [mailto:gmassik@xxxx]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:29 PMTo:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [amibroker] programing in
basic
I searched amazon and foundreal
basic and visual basic--how are thesedifferent fron just plain Basic and
does it make a dirfferenceThank
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