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macOS Hi level MAC language.

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Cpat

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Sep 25, 2011
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I switched to a MAC 4 years ago from PC's where I was programming in VB and databases.

I'm looking for a hi level language for the MAC, mainly as a front end for a Sqlite database, mainly for data entry (text boxes, listboxes, calendar for date entry) and possibly grids for data display.

I've tried realbasic and was unimpressed, purebasic seems to low level.

What about applescript? Any other suggestions?
 
Why not a language like Ruby? Full OOP, cross-platform, strong text processing, and functional components. Applescript is a very domain restricted language. Ruby has access to Cocoa (Apple maintains bridge code IIRC) so if you want to do something GUI related as well it's no problem.

Probably not the exciting answer you were looking for but it seems like the path of least resistance.
 
Cpat said:
I switched to a MAC 4 years ago from PC's where I was programming in VB and databases.

I'm looking for a hi level language for the MAC, mainly as a front end for a Sqlite database, mainly for data entry (text boxes, listboxes, calendar for date entry) and possibly grids for data display.

I've tried realbasic and was unimpressed, purebasic seems to low level.

What about applescript? Any other suggestions?
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Python is a great high level language that comes included on Mac OS X.
 
I'll investigate Python. Thanks for all the suggestions.
 
Kinda sounds like the OP is looking for something like VB. Python, Ruby and others are still FAR more complicated than Visual Basic.

You can do a significant amount of data presentation and UI manipulation in VB without knowing anything about what most people would consider traditional programming, and that's where it sounds like the OP is.

Honestly, for what you are looking to do, do what a poster above said and check out Filemaker Pro. You just aren't going to find anything that simplified on Mac. So much of how that works is built upon 20 years of Microsoft engineering into APIs and libraries that just don't have Mac counterparts. Real Basic could provide some of that, but it definitely won't integrate as tightly systemwide and with databases.

It honestly sounds like you are looking more for report building capability rather than a programming language.
 
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