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Rex Couture schrieb:
> Most of you run BB applications from within the BB environment. Several people have mentioned problems of acceptance of BlackBox applications by clients.
>
> This seems to imply that users regard BB only as a specialized environment that is not used to produce freestanding applications. Is this true? I believe the answer to this question has major implications.
>
>Sincerely,
>Rex Couture
>
>
There are several issues I see.
BB is a wonderful tool, but it is built for something for which it isn't
used: Platform independence / portability. Since there are - currently
- no ports to other systems/computers, every windows programmer who
needs to use DLLs has more troubles, because he not only needs to know
the BB way to do it but also the windows way, and sometimes there are no
ways to reconcile both. (with Apple now running on Intel CPUs, a port to
Apple would be interesting). The moment a working port to another
platform is available, this will be BBs supreme strength.
Also, the post mortem debugger is a good and necessary feature, but a
runtime debugger is something most other languages/environments used
commercially can provide.
And, as we often have discussed, the documentation needs to be better.
Probably the book "Programming in Oberon" could or should be used as a
template for a "Programming in Clackbox/Component Pascal"
The coding support of Visual Studio is also a thing that BB "lacks",
that is, if you want to have someone switch from VC++ or VB to BB, it's
one of the things he will complain about.
I think, aside from the "religion" issue ("C is the best language for
most everything"), the above are reasons why switching to BB is not
happening that much.
For a company the decision to use BB is mostly a question of "will I
have to live with employee X for the rest of his life, or will I be able
to find someone else who is able to work with BB?". And all projects,
where the customer not only gets the executables but also the source
code face the same issue.
I don't think that many of us here develop "standard software" to be
sold in stores, and for all else the above paragraph applies.
Anyhow, since BB is now OpenSource, the above issues are projects that
can be done, as fast as we reach a "critical mass" of developers. This
would need kind of a "webring" aside from the Oberon Ring, with websites
discussing projects done with BB, etc. Bottom line: Don't wait for OMI
to do something, do it yourself.
Rene
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