Re: Seeking help for learning system for absolute beginners

On 1/28/08 8:06 AM, in article
913af600-fd49-40e7-a3c0-3e5b02b5c01f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "Maciej
Katafiasz" <mathrick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On 28 Jan., 02:18, pg <pen...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Am not sure how familiar you are with computer languages. A useful
>>> alternative, is Visual Basic. Personally i don't know Visual Basic,
>>> but it is a easy language, and one of the top 5 deployed language
>>> today and actually valuable as a skill. I think there are variant
>>> versions out there that are free.
>> 
>> Isn't Visual Basic a commercial product ? As I said, we do not want to
>> violate any copyright thing - our operation is shoe-string as it is,
>> and we just can't afford to be raided by the racist government of
>> Malaysia (arrrghhh, politics!) with the excuse that we infringe on
>> copyrights.
> 
> It basically comes on free-to-use terms with every Windows. However,
> I'd strongly advise against using VB, it's been created as a quickie
> glue language and as such has absolutely no interest in encouraging
> good style or practices, or being good for kids. What Dijkstra said
> about BASIC holds true for Visual Basic as well.

Wow! News to me! Where is VB on my Windows CD? Or is it just a license?
What are you smoking? I need to try some of that!

Qbasic came with Windows at one time, and you can still download a package
from Microsoft that contains it (OLDDOS.EXE IIRC).