Wow. We use FaceSpan but after hearing all this I'm going to check out realbasic. I, too, hate applescript's syntax so this might be a win-win solution. Thanks for the tips. Rob Osattin p.s. Sorry for the poor job of quoting your original message but I'm on notes so this is the best I can do. Nathaniel Irons <irons@espresso.hampshire.edu> on 05/02/99 05:46:10 AM To: macperl <macperl@macperl.org> cc: Subject: Re: [MacPerl] AEs in realbasic [...] Yes. FaceSpan yields slower final products, isn't threaded, doesn't have a debugger, doesn't use an object-oriented language, can't talk to ODBC [...] ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org