1. Re: QBasic/BASIC programmers learning Euphoria
At 07:15 PM 5/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Since there seem to be a few QBasic/BASIC programmers learning Euphoria,
>I guess I'll get to work on a DiskMag article for Stephen Spencer to help
>BASIC programmers to learn Euphoria. (ie teach them how to avoid GOTOs
>and to use compare("this", "that")=0 instead of "this"="that", etc)
>
>(Just don't boo once you finally see it, assuming I get it finished. :)
>
>
Bob Pilkington -
I await your Basic-to-Euphoria article with bated breath. I have several
QBasic programs that work, and I want to translate some of them into
Euphoria. I'm having a lot of difficulty, trying to get past those GOTOs.
Everybody seems to snipe at the various dialects of Basic, but nobody
mentions the one great advantage of Basic: Programs written in Basic work,
but in my experience programs written in other languages (including, so far,
Euphoria) don't work. The only language that is better than Basic is
assembly language, but I'm out of practice there and besides it's a drag.
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
