REALbasic Linux IDE Public Beta Available

An anonymous reader writes "A brand-new visual development environment for Linux is in public beta now. REALbasic 2005 for Linux Standard Edition will be available for free when it ships in August. The company has also done away with their email registration requirement. Download the public beta now from REAL Software."

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Yeah, this is what we want...

[slashdot_commentator]

...people who are barely able to understand the concept of good programming practices having access to a tool which supports none of these. Then let them produce, with ease, the shoddy, buggy programs to enable Linux to challenge Microsoft for the honor of crappiest computing platform.

Face it, business analysts and venture capitalists: Programming, if not an art, is certainly a skill which takes a certain level of talent and expertise to be competent. If you're competent, you'll learn it. If not, you shouldn't have any business producing defective applications. Any more than having a non-electrician do electrical wiring. Certainly, there is no reason to help propagate a crutch, designed before the concept of procedural programming (another dinosaur), just so that incompetents are better able to plague users with shoddy programs.

At this point in the game, with environments like java, mono, and python, there is no reason to introduce a flawed language like BASIC into the mainstream. The ones capable of learning BASIC, are capable of learning one of the above. If they don't want to, it probably means they're too stupid to, and should be culled out of developing applications.