CA-Realizer
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CA-Realizer was a BASIC
-language software development
product originally developed by Within Technologies, but first commercially released by Computer Associates, as CA-Realizer 1.0 in 1992. Several versions were released, that provided a version of the BASIC programming language, a Rapid application development
tool, including forms building and some powerful built-in components, that was comparable to, and competitive with Microsoft
Visual Basic
, in its early days. It offered some functionality (like a fairly useful spreadsheet) and cross-platform capability. There were versions both 16 bit Windows 3.1, 32-bit WIndows 95, and a 32-bit IBM OS/2 version. The final version was CA-Realizer 3.0, released around 1996.
As MS Visual Basic 4.0, and later continued to advance in functionality, CA-Realizer was left behind, and was quietly retired from CA's product offerings in the late 1990s.
BASIC
BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code....
-language software development
Software development
Software development is the development of a software product...
product originally developed by Within Technologies, but first commercially released by Computer Associates, as CA-Realizer 1.0 in 1992. Several versions were released, that provided a version of the BASIC programming language, a Rapid application development
Rapid application development
Rapid application development is a software development methodology that uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. The "planning" of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself...
tool, including forms building and some powerful built-in components, that was comparable to, and competitive with Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
Visual Basic
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model...
, in its early days. It offered some functionality (like a fairly useful spreadsheet) and cross-platform capability. There were versions both 16 bit Windows 3.1, 32-bit WIndows 95, and a 32-bit IBM OS/2 version. The final version was CA-Realizer 3.0, released around 1996.
As MS Visual Basic 4.0, and later continued to advance in functionality, CA-Realizer was left behind, and was quietly retired from CA's product offerings in the late 1990s.