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- 2008.08.04
The Macintosh has long been the gold standard in friendliness forthe end user, but what a lot of people don't realize is that the Maccan be a real pain to program for. The situation has gotten a lotbetter for OS X with the variety of scripting languages availableand Apple's excellent developer tools.
However, there is a niche on any platform for a rapid GUI buildercoupled with a high level language. Visual Basic filled this niche onWindows but on the Mac OS, REALbasic is a great choice andpre-OS X it was pretty much the only choice. If you don't believeme, fire up your old Mac and try whipping together a quick applicationin C using MPW and compare it to the same application in REALbasic.
In my opinion, REALbasic is a better RAD (rapid applicationdevelopment) tool than Visual Basic with even early versions providingdecent Object Oriented support. It truly was and is a great tool forprototyping and rapid application development.
I recently had a chance to chat with Andrew Barry, the principalauthor of REALbasic. Andrew started development of REALbasic as a hobbyproject in 1995 when he was 25 years old. Popularity and features grew,and it turned into a commercial product in 1997 with it's first releaseon July 4, 1998.
Andrew, you are well known as the principal originator of REALbasic.Much great software has started as an 'itch' the programmer was tryingto scratch.
What were you trying to do with REALbasic ?
My main intent in writing REALbasic was to provide atool that covered the same sort of use cases that Visual Basic underWindows did - a development tool that took care of the drudgery ofmanaging windows, buttons, etc. and let you jump straight to theinteresting part. The funny part is the backlash you get from 'realprogrammers', who think that doing that drudgery builds character, orat best provides some sort of 'talent filter' or 'rite of passage'. Ofcourse similar arguments were made about word processors.
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While I had originally developed REALbasic both formyself and other people, I ultimately found it to be too limited for myown use - I had failed to create the path between simple and powerful.I should note that I still haven't successfully scratch that itch formyself yet.
How much did developing on the Mac figure into your work? Do youwish you had developed on other platforms? What drew you to theMac?
I've always been a big Mac fan - the first Mac I couldafford was the Mac IIsi back in1990, but I had otherwise taught myself to program the Mac on afriend's machine. The Mac has usually been the platform that Ideveloped on for fun, and also it was the platform that was most inneed of something like REALbasic.
For whatever reason, I've never pigeonholed myself asa solely Mac developer - most of my professional career has actuallybeen spent writing Windows and Java software, and more recently I'vebeen getting pretty capable at web development. So from thatperspective I think I have a reasonable grasp of what the strengths andweaknesses of each of the platforms.
But fundamentally I appreciate the attention to detailand usability that's present in Mac applications - details that areoften missing on other platforms, whether misaligned baselines orpreference dialogs that intimidate.
REALbasic met a huge need on the Classic Mac OS, given the dearth ofdevelopment tools for the casual to mid level programmer. ForOS X, this is no longer the case, since OS X has easy accessto scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Ruby. Do you stillfeel that REALbasic meets a need on OS X?
Certainly the presence of a command line means thatthese scripting languages can be easily leveraged for batch styleoperations. What I'm not sure about is whether they provide a suitablyintegrated experience for creating a GUI.
So from that perspective, I don't think thatREALbasic's niche has been supplanted by those scripting languages. Thereal threat facing REALbasic is the same one facing all native appdevelopment: The World Wide Web.
To put it another way, if I was starting on my careertoday, I'd be well advised to focus on web app technologies that areapplicable to pretty well any device capable of running a web browser -as opposed to limiting myself to any given client platform.
Do you feel that programming is an art or a science?
Yes (inclusive or) - it's not a toggle or two extremeson a single axis.
You can develop software with varying amounts ofeither, but I'd argue that healthy dollops of both are beneficial todevelopment.
I'd argue that art encompasses getting that clearunderstanding of what the end user is wanting to achieve such that thesoftware naturally anticipates their desires.
Science involves various best practice such asautomated regression testing, and separation of concerns (for exampleby using design patterns such as MVC).
What are you working on now ?
Lots of stuff.
My primary daytime job is being Product Architect foran international company called Haley where I do a lot of Java, .Net,and JavaScript work in the enterprise space.
I'm also doing some graphical GIS stuff for thegovernment involving Java, .Net, and JavaScript.
Furthermore, I'm doing some web app development foranother client using a combination of .Net and PHP (it's also fun,because I get to communicate with a credit card gateway)
I'm playing around with iPhone app development and/orexperimenting with some different approaches for OS X development,which I have little time for because I also have four young daughtersaged 12, 9, 8, and almost 3.
What excites you about the future of the Mac or about computers ingeneral ?
A bit over a week ago I got an iPhone, which I find tobe a pretty interesting device. Certainly there's a lot of commonalitywith OS X with regard to underlying operating systemfunctionality, but it goes all the way back to the original concept ofthe Mac being an appliance. I could certainly envisage the successor tothe iPhone interface being pulled back into the consumer Mac space,making them substantially easier to use/administer.
So while this is probably a heretical view, I'mexcited about the prospect of the personal computer being replaced bythe information appliance. Why does everybody need to understandoverlapping windows, how to use the Finder, and that they should closean application when they close its last open window?
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- 2008.08.04
The Macintosh has long been the gold standard in friendliness forthe end user, but what a lot of people don't realize is that the Maccan be a real pain to program for. The situation has gotten a lotbetter for OS X with the variety of scripting languages availableand Apple's excellent developer tools.
However, there is a niche on any platform for a rapid GUI buildercoupled with a high level language. Visual Basic filled this niche onWindows but on the Mac OS, REALbasic is a great choice andpre-OS X it was pretty much the only choice. If you don't believeme, fire up your old Mac and try whipping together a quick applicationin C using MPW and compare it to the same application in REALbasic.
In my opinion, REALbasic is a better RAD (rapid applicationdevelopment) tool than Visual Basic with even early versions providingdecent Object Oriented support. It truly was and is a great tool forprototyping and rapid application development.
I recently had a chance to chat with Andrew Barry, the principalauthor of REALbasic. Andrew started development of REALbasic as a hobbyproject in 1995 when he was 25 years old. Popularity and features grew,and it turned into a commercial product in 1997 with it's first releaseon July 4, 1998.
Andrew, you are well known as the principal originator of REALbasic.Much great software has started as an 'itch' the programmer was tryingto scratch.
What were you trying to do with REALbasic ?
My main intent in writing REALbasic was to provide atool that covered the same sort of use cases that Visual Basic underWindows did - a development tool that took care of the drudgery ofmanaging windows, buttons, etc. and let you jump straight to theinteresting part. The funny part is the backlash you get from 'realprogrammers', who think that doing that drudgery builds character, orat best provides some sort of 'talent filter' or 'rite of passage'. Ofcourse similar arguments were made about word processors.
While I had originally developed REALbasic both formyself and other people, I ultimately found it to be too limited for myown use - I had failed to create the path between simple and powerful.I should note that I still haven't successfully scratch that itch formyself yet.
How much did developing on the Mac figure into your work? Do youwish you had developed on other platforms? What drew you to theMac?
I've always been a big Mac fan - the first Mac I couldafford was the Mac IIsi back in1990, but I had otherwise taught myself to program the Mac on afriend's machine. The Mac has usually been the platform that Ideveloped on for fun, and also it was the platform that was most inneed of something like REALbasic.
For whatever reason, I've never pigeonholed myself asa solely Mac developer - most of my professional career has actuallybeen spent writing Windows and Java software, and more recently I'vebeen getting pretty capable at web development. So from thatperspective I think I have a reasonable grasp of what the strengths andweaknesses of each of the platforms.
But fundamentally I appreciate the attention to detailand usability that's present in Mac applications - details that areoften missing on other platforms, whether misaligned baselines orpreference dialogs that intimidate.
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REALbasic met a huge need on the Classic Mac OS, given the dearth ofdevelopment tools for the casual to mid level programmer. ForOS X, this is no longer the case, since OS X has easy accessto scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Ruby. Do you stillfeel that REALbasic meets a need on OS X?
Certainly the presence of a command line means thatthese scripting languages can be easily leveraged for batch styleoperations. What I'm not sure about is whether they provide a suitablyintegrated experience for creating a GUI.
So from that perspective, I don't think thatREALbasic's niche has been supplanted by those scripting languages. Thereal threat facing REALbasic is the same one facing all native appdevelopment: The World Wide Web.
To put it another way, if I was starting on my careertoday, I'd be well advised to focus on web app technologies that areapplicable to pretty well any device capable of running a web browser -as opposed to limiting myself to any given client platform.
Do you feel that programming is an art or a science?
Yes (inclusive or) - it's not a toggle or two extremeson a single axis.
You can develop software with varying amounts ofeither, but I'd argue that healthy dollops of both are beneficial todevelopment.
I'd argue that art encompasses getting that clearunderstanding of what the end user is wanting to achieve such that thesoftware naturally anticipates their desires.
Science involves various best practice such asautomated regression testing, and separation of concerns (for exampleby using design patterns such as MVC).
What are you working on now ?
Lots of stuff.
My primary daytime job is being Product Architect foran international company called Haley where I do a lot of Java, .Net,and JavaScript work in the enterprise space.
I'm also doing some graphical GIS stuff for thegovernment involving Java, .Net, and JavaScript.
Furthermore, I'm doing some web app development foranother client using a combination of .Net and PHP (it's also fun,because I get to communicate with a credit card gateway)
I'm playing around with iPhone app development and/orexperimenting with some different approaches for OS X development,which I have little time for because I also have four young daughtersaged 12, 9, 8, and almost 3.
What excites you about the future of the Mac or about computers ingeneral ?
A bit over a week ago I got an iPhone, which I find tobe a pretty interesting device. Certainly there's a lot of commonalitywith OS X with regard to underlying operating systemfunctionality, but it goes all the way back to the original concept ofthe Mac being an appliance. I could certainly envisage the successor tothe iPhone interface being pulled back into the consumer Mac space,making them substantially easier to use/administer.
So while this is probably a heretical view, I'mexcited about the prospect of the personal computer being replaced bythe information appliance. Why does everybody need to understandoverlapping windows, how to use the Finder, and that they should closean application when they close its last open window?
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