Hi, my name is Roberto, and I am from Florida, Uruguay.
I am a Software and Web Developer and been using macs for 7 years and developing in the platform for 3 where only 1.5 been Cocoa.
I was introduced to the BASIC world, when I was 10 years old, when I've started playing with the old Spectrums computers and some magazines+books. Then I had some other "BASIC POWERED" computers like the MSX, Atari, Commodore 64, Amiga, and well, had the good luck to live these wonderful years when the BASIC was the best language around
With the pass of the time I had to "adapt" to the new programming languages standards, where the first adaptation was Pascal, then C, then C++, JAVA, etc.
When I comes to the Mac World, I've found that there where no Visual Studio with Visual C++ or Visual Basic, or anything like, and the only thing "to develop native apps" at the moment was XCode, so I've needed to "addapt" again and learn Objetive-C + Carbon, and recently, Cocoa.
So resuming, these days, to be more specific "yesterday" I was looking around to see whats new out there "with the always hope to find a good BASIC to be used in the Mac", and figure that a good idea was to google "IDE+BASIC+OSX" and between all the results I saw Objetive-Basic! I jumped in right away! And I can tell you, after read just a little, next thing I did was download, register in the forum, and started to play with it! And after some minutes I came out with this little test app called Coin Flipper that uses NSThread and some other controls/functions (the download has the source code) where the only problem was the NSLevelIndicators that I was unable to figure how to "setMaxValue" and set the "Value" properties...
But anyway, I found this it a great Idea! I need to say thank you because this is what I been looking for years "I know its in beta, and has some work in progress things like debugging..." but actually it works very good! I think Objetive-Basic has a very bright future! Thanks!