Happy Trails <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:25:18 -0700, "R.Nicholson" <rhnlogic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I guess I just care more than some people what I can accomplish with a
> PC.
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> I also don't think you can separate the two. Every implementation of
> Basic, like other languages, had its own additional items that made it
> different from other implementations. I do like the core language
> itself because it seems to be more logical to anybody whose mother
> tongue is english or anything with a similar sentence structure.
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> But you can't even talk about the simplicity of the language, through
> lack of what seems to me to be totally unnecessary bull****
> punctuation like C and java have, without talking about particular
> implementations. Because some implementations allowed stuff that
> other didn't.
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> PDS, whether you used it's IDE or not, let you write code in the
> simplest, fastest way possible, that resulted in code that was still
> maintainable, and didn't force you into really stupid constructions
> because some egghead thought that's the way you should think. By this
> I mean leaving out the GOTO's, or stupid bull**** like that.
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> You could write a Basic program the same way you could write a set of
> instructions for any simple manual procedure, complete with
> "go-back-and repeat-step-8-and-carry-on-from-there". Why should
> software be any different?
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> The reason we have so many bits of software in a windows environment
> today that will not let you back out of a procedure step-by-step the
> same way you got into it, is because the only way you can do in an
> easy to program way is using something that works like a GOTO
> statement.
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> Basic has this; I like it. It's a language feature, not an IDE
> feature.
Good points. Picking up earlier comments here - I run VBDOS on WinXP SP2,
These days I'll do a lot of stuff in Excel that I used to do in Basic,
but some things can't be done on a spreadsheet - or at least - I can't:-)
I stick with VBDOS for these because it seemed to be the last version
that used 'Read' 'Data' functions rather than pulling stuff from a file.
I keep things reasonably oranised in subroutines, but refuse to give up
GOTO. VBDOS also has some nice date functions. I point anyone who can't
run the compiled program to Dosbox or similar.
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