"R.Nicholson" <rhnlogic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Jan 4, 9:57 am, The Translucent Amoebae <transamoe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 10:53 am, Charmed Snark <sn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> ...
>> > This is a new Open Sourced BASIC interpreter,
>> > using the Berkeley DB, focused on:
>>
>> > 1. Simple to program (for non-programmers)
>> > 2. Powerful database statements
>> > 3. UNIX shell friendly
> ...
>> The moment that i read: "Unix Shell Friendly", i knew that it was NOT
>> going to be AT ALL Friendly.
>
> The Basic language probably reached it's peak of actual
> use when deployed on computers that only had text shells
> as their primary interface (Apple II, C64, BBC, PC-XT,
> etc.) A lot of kids learned to program on such, perhaps
> more than with the so-called "friendlier" GUI IDEs.
>
> Chipmunk Basic is "Unix Shell Friendly":
> http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic
>
>
> IMHO. YMMV.
> --
> rhn A.T nicholson d.0.t C-o-M
I have to disagree.
Since those days when BASIC "reached it's peak" nothing has emerged to
replace it, nothing easier to learn to program with, no new computer that
takes away the reason to learn programming.
If I am wrong then there would be a host of activity with some new
language,
or you could point me to a new computer that makes programming redundant.
What has happened is that the personal computer has become more complex,
and the dominant force in computing MS has abandoned BASIC.
If BASIC were ****pped free with every personal computer then the so called
"peak"
would still be with us. That QBASIC became unfriendly, existing in a tiny
DOS box,
and not sup****ted by it's maker, and replaced by a fake BASIC unfriendly
to
beginners, are some of the reasons why we are where we are today.
jj
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