CA-Realizer was a
BASIC
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* Basic (chemistry), having the properties of a base
* Basic access authentication, in HTTP
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...
-language
software development
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product
originally developed by Within Technologies, but first commercially released by
Computer Associates
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, as CA-Realizer 1.0 in 1992. Several versions were released, that provided a version of the BASIC programming language, a
Rapid application development
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tool, including forms building and some powerful built-in components, that was comparable to, and competitive with
Microsoft
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, in its early days. It offered some functionality (like a fairly useful spreadsheet) and cross-platform capability. There were versions for 16-bit
Windows 3.1
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, 32-bit
Windows 95
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, and 32-bit
IBM OS/2
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.
The final version was CA-Realizer 3.0, released around 1996.
Starting with version 4.0, MS Visual Basic continued to advance in functionality, leaving CA-Realizer behind. Increasingly uncompetitive, CA-Realizer was quietly retired from CA's product offerings in the late 1990s.
In the 1996 to 1999 versions of Accpac ERP for Windows, CA Realizer was responsible for the dreaded "CarlZ Error" which would periodically hang up the software. This error disappeared in the 2000 version of the software when it underwent a rewrite in C.
References
External links
CA-Realizer - EDM2
BASIC programming language family
CA Technologies
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