JM> JS>Is CA Realizer a powerful language for OS/2?  I've seen it but have 
JM> JS>never heard anyone's opinions about it.
JM> 
JM>     Yes, a very powerful language.  Consider that it has string parsing
JM> functions of all sorts built in: like "this is a string", when
JM> passed to a function, will return an array with each word in an
JM> element.  Or traversing an array:
JM> 
JM>     Print Array[4:50]
JM> 
JM>     is IDENTICAL to:
JM> 
JM>     For i = 4 to 50
JM>          Print array[i]
JM>     Next i
JM> 
JM>     There's a catch, though.  It's a dog to program in.  I 
JM> haven't been able to
JM> finish anything yet, as I don't really have time to sit down and
JM> master it... with a bit of experience specifically with Realizer,
JM> you can accomplish something though, but it is more "App" specific
JM> than Visual  Basic, which is more "Form" based.  Plus,
there's over a
JM> meg of runtime files that must be included with any app.
JM> 
JM>     I have been trying to hack out a button bar, and it keeps giving me
JM> problems...  I have it running in the Windows version, but there
JM> are slight differences in the OS/2 version...
JM>    

For a powerful language, it sounds like it's pretty troublesome. IMO,
Ca-Realizer seems like a LCD solution for developers trying to live the
"just re-compile it for the other platform, and it'll run" dream. I
haven't used it so I can't say for sure, but it seems like something
like VX.REXX would be a better tool to use for quick-n-dirty OS/2 apps.
Kelly

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