[futurebasic] Re: Real Basic

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From: Rick Brown <rbrown@...>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:59:58 -0500
> Might be useful to note that you can't make any toolbox calls from this
> environment.  You would need to go through a complex procedure using
> something like FB to compile the ones you want to call into code resources
> and then call them as Hypercard extensions. 

I suspected that might be the case.  Still, it is supposed to be
VB-compatible, which will make a tremendous selling point, I think.  As
someone who thinks "programming is its own reward," I'll take FB's
versatility over VB's (and presumably RB's) Rapid-App-Development
features any day--I dislike being "shielded" from the guts of my
machine.  Still, I recognize that not everybody shares that opinion, and
a lot of people will specifically _want_ to be shielded from the guts.

- Rick