> The other downsides to RB is that although it is very quick to develop 
> something simple, the code is enormous... Five edit fields and a couple
> of dozen lines of code give you a 860K application. In spite of the neat
> appearance of a lot of things, it doesn't actually do half of what PG
> does in terms of code, FN's, filters and so on. There are no real menu
> items or string resources which would seem to make localisation etc
> difficult.

This will be changing in REALbasic v3. In that version, only the parts of
the runtime engine you are using will be linked in creating applications
that are smaller both in disk and memory footprint.

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Geoff Perlman
REAL Software, Inc.
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