== ==Verify or Remove Article== == 

  

 Once again we see the article has been reverted to a ad campaign for Real Software full unverified information. Instead of verifying information the RB product shills continue to use deceitful tactics such as this example under “Language Features”: 

 “RB is a strongly typed language with minimal automatic type conversion, that supports single inheritance and multiple interfaces, class methods and class properties, reference counting (similar to Java), definition of customized arithmetic operators (similar to C++). It has a complete feature set supporting hash tables, threads, real-time 3D graphics, sound, XML parsing and generation (even through XSL), full Unicode support, API calls to compiled C libraries on all supported platforms, Visual Basic datatypes compatibility, regular expressions, QuickTime, serial, TCP/IP sockets, SSL, HTTP, POP3, SMTP, SOAP, scripting language support through RBScript, Apple events, Address book, Windows registry, system tray icons, ActiveX and OLE.” 

 This entire paragraph makes claims about features in Realbasic, yet there are NO links to articles verifying that such features actually exist in Realbasic. Instead we see the shills only linking to generic articles on generic computer terms so as to convinve the user that Realbasic contain these features. This is deceitful behavior designed to provide advertising for Realbasic. If  in deed these features are included in Realbasic as they claim then they should have no trouble linking to specific INDEPENDENT articles which state such. 

 We see the same thing repeated in the file format section: 

 “The source file format contains window and control placement data and is proprietary; however, XML import and export and Visual Basic import functionality is included. All source code can be contained in one project file, but it is also possible to have classes/modules in separate files in the same way as most other languages or dialects can. REALbasic compiles directly to machine language for each platform that it supports (Mac OS X, MS Windows, Linux).” 

 There are no actual links to articles which verfiy this information - only links to generic computer terms which are misued for the sole purpose of trying to convince potential customers to buy this product. Gee, you neglected to mention that versions of RB prior to RB2005 also included a much ore important feature than XML - the ability to export projects as a plain text that you could then open in any text editor as opposed to XML which you much parse yourself into a plain text if you wanted to print it. 

  
 Let’s examine the introduction: 

 “REALbasic (RB) is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language developed and commercially marketed by REAL Software, Inc in Austin, Texas for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. Created by Andrew Barry, who has since moved on to creating ExtremeBasic, it was originally called CrossBasic due to its ability to compile the same programming code for Mac OS and Windows (although the IDE was Mac only). It was then redubbed REALbasic by REAL Software when they took over development in 1997. The IDE is now available for all three supported platforms (with exception, as of February 2006, of Intel” 

 Once again no links to actual articles which verfiy this information, just generic ones. The statement that this product is marketed for Mac OS X is false because with the introduction of Realbasic 2005 it no longer runs on any Mac OS X system from 10 to 10.2.6 (not to mention the fact it no longer runs on any Macintosh Classic platform - the original platform it was developed). Further more you cannot include blanket statements such as it runs on windows or Linux as that means nothing since there are only certain versions of these os’s it will operate on - or that given features will work. 

 And even more interesting is the fact that the shills behind this product continue to remove historical information about previous versions yet they include historical information within this section, while the remainder of the article only contains information about the latest features so as to sell the product to potential customers. 

 In the IDE Versions section: 
 
 “There are two versions of the IDE: 

 * 	 The professional edition can compile programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Microsoft Windows (plus Mac OS) from the same source code file; it can also access databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.) including the built-in single-user REAL SQL Database engine based on SQLite; it compiles console applications and has numerous other features. 
 * 	 The standard edition only compiles programs for the platform that the IDE is running on (either Windows, Linux or Mac), and does not allow access to databases other than the built-in REAL SQL