JK >>
   >>To date, all of the intrinsic components of aLIVE! are functional.  That
   >>is to say, the GUI system, the EMS manager, the language pattern matcher
   >>and parser, et cetera.  All that really remains is for me to formulate 
the
   >>some 1000 or so grammatical rules of PowerBASIC with the object oriented
   >>Fermat extensions, and it is functional.
   >>There have been several concerns, however.
   >>
   >>First, I am concerned that the PowerBASIC community really couldn't care
   >>less about adding object oriented extensions to the BASIC language.  
hen
   >>AMS asked for beta testers, we got one reply.  AMS has already put in
   >>over $50,000 in development into the component parts of aLIVE! v1.0.
      The PowerBasic community is not just "ussin's" here on "this-here"
      fancy FIDOnet ECHO.  Many people buy stuff in stores.  You know
      that Shareware works about 1-2% of the time, so that ain't the
      way to do it.  I hope you knew that.  I bought the PDK, and many
      librarys for PowerBasic through the mail from dealers, untested
      beforehand by me.  Don't give up the ship.  We, here, support you!
   >>
   >>If one beta tester represents, oh let's say even 100 potential 
nd-users,
   >>well, we won't make a red cent with aLIVE!, though we will manage to 
ive
   >>away a powerful extension to the BASIC language for a song to those 100
   >>programmers who will then have what amounts to a very powerful tool in
   >>a competitive marketplace.  If 100 programmers had offered to beta, that
   >>might have made the picture different.
   >>
   I don't have the time to beta..... that's why, for me.
   >>When we announced aLIVE! v1.0, we were hoping someone out there would
   >>happen to know what object oriented extensions would be about.
   >>
   >>Nada.
   >>
   ....unfair, I may be stupid, but I have money... and I might buy
   one if you could convince me in "fourth grade" language that I
   "have to have it" to do this and that.  See a salesman to help you
   with this.  I used to be a pharmaceutical rep and I never saw a
   doctor buy/write a drug because of chemical components, they wanted
   to know what it did for them, ie problems solved, less phone calls
   on the weekend, etc etc.  We, again, on this ECHO are your friends
   or we wouldn't be reading this stuff..   Can't wait for aLIVE!
   >>Jamshid
   >>
   >>
   >>
   >> 
   >>... OFFLINE 1.43 * I want to be a modirater when I grow up 
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