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SIMPOL is here!
CodeTRUCKER:
SIMPOL is here! :) "SIMPOL" is a new RAD and is pronounced "simple" (in English) and is supposed to be "simple" as well, but I have not tried it... yet. It produces cross-platform executables, i.e., you write the apps in SIMPOL and compile for Windows, Mac and/or Linux.
You can find info at SIMPOL in English or SIMPOL in German (Deutsche)
Here is the email I received...
SIMPOL EmailSIMPOL Professional is available for download !
Today marks the start of a new era in Rapid Application Development
With SIMPOL, you can develop your application once
- and then run it on Linux, Mac-OS or Windows
SIMPOL Professional is a world-class toolkit to enable you to
create software Applications
- faster and easier than ever before.
The same tools can also be used by expert programmers to create
large and sophisticated systems
- faster and easier than ever before.
It is available NOW, from www.simpol.com
It includes not-for-resale copies of:
* SIMPOL Personal
* SIMPOL Multi-User database Engine
Check out our updated websites at: www.simpol.com or www.simpol.de
=============================================
If you purchased the pre-release and are now upgrading to the
final release, enter your registration number in the discount
code box to receive your discounted price.
If you have any questions, please contact me directly or:
US, Canada & South America
=========================
Deborah Casha
Tel: +1 631 757 9343
Email: [email protected]
Germany, Austria & Switzerland
============================
Yvonne Theunissen
Tel: +49 2131 65544
Email: [email protected]
Regards
Rufus Greenbaum
Director of Sales & Marketing
Email: [email protected]
Skype: rufusg
Direct UK: +44 20 3286 1284
Direct US: +1 631 615 7761
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Simpol Ltd Tel: +44 1223 421119
St John’s Innovation Centre Fax: +44 870 132 0720
Cambridge, CB4 0WS, UK Web: www.simpol.com
.
Enjoy!
f0dder:
So, what is this? A payware closed-source frankenBASIC using wxWidgets?
40hz:
So, what is this? A payware closed-source frankenBASIC using wxWidgets?
-f0dder (May 19, 2009, 06:28 PM)
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Don't be so harsh. :P
It's a descendant of Superbase, which was one of the first database RADs for personal computers. (MagicPC :-* and Clarion were two others.) It was way ahead of its time when it first came out. Surprisingly powerful too. Sort of an early version of MS Access.
One company I worked with had a German subsidiary that was actively developing all sorts of neat business and financial apps with Superbase for internal use. And they were running Superbase on Amigas!!! (Which tells you how long ago that was! ;D)
8)
CodeTRUCKER:
So, what is this? A payware closed-source frankenBASIC using wxWidgets?
-f0dder (May 19, 2009, 06:28 PM)
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I will let you and others be the judge. When I received the email, I came to DC and searched the forums for "simpol." No hits, so I posted. No spamming here, just a notice of what I *thought* would be apropos in this environment, but...
for the record... I have no expectation of any compensation for posting this on the DC forum nor has there been any offer from the developers of SIMPOL. I will tell you that I *had* a mutual acquaintance at one time, but that has evaporated.
[Edit - Spelling]
f0dder:
CodeTRUCKER: wasn't being suspicious of you, sorry if it came out that way.
And yes, the post came out a bit harsh, but really - you go to their site, and all you see is a lot of superlatives a bout a product that isn't available yet, and not much to back up the claims. I always get suspicious when I see a frankenbasic, especially when it's payware and closed-source... I couldn't imagine locking my code to a platform that proprietary. And I also get suspicious of the somewhat dumbing-down they've got going - "you're probably too dumb to use C/Java, but you can sure use our product" >_<.
Perhaps I'm being a bit elitist here, but I wouldn't trust software by an author who feels java is too complicated. Especially not if that software has anything to do with billing, money, etc.
It might be that SIMPOL is the best thing since sliced bread for some_purpose, but imho they're not selling it very well, then. The name and website doesn't help much either :)
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