Re: Programming and Martial Arts
- Posted by Shian_Lee Jan 04, 2011
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When you look at other languages and compare it to 3.1, you can see we have just raised the bar on the ability to compete with them or offer a viable alternative. 3.1 could have never competed with any modern language in terms of productivity. 3.1 may have competed with languages in the 1990s, but no further. Today GWBasic is no longer in use (at least normal use, I'm sure someone out there in some corner of the world still uses it). Why? It was fantastic back in its day but failed to move forward. As languages evolved and it became known that the ability to slice an array by a single character was common place in all applications and GWBasic did not offer such a thing while other languages did, GWBasic began its death. Euphoria (prior to 3.1) was in that state, dying and dying quickly.
One interesting thing about GWBasic and QuickBasic:
QuickBasic is not 1000 times better then GWBasic, it's just a little bit better. But QuickBasic 4.5 is so much popular until now, so many people likes it and using it (I love it too).
The question is why?
One answer:
QuickBasic had and still has an amazing IDE, Editor. Simple, Great Help with F1, very friendly - All-In-One!
It's the Editor it self that actually made QuickBasic 4.5 such a success until today. Not necessarily the language.
I wrote many applications in QuickBasic, some of them are still in use until now.
QuickBasic Editor/Interpreter/Compiler, this All-In-One editor made me so productive - that I succeeded where C programmers failed: giving a fast solutions to daily life's problems, in industry and other areas.
Again: the All-In-One very friendly editor was my choice - NOT the language.
Today the situation is terrible: so many languages, so complicated - and so bad editors.
Many editors are actually much more complicated then the language!
Other editors are "for general use"...,
Many editors are OR for total idiots OR for the most professional programmers,
Some editors are great - until you press F1... (F1, and good sensitive help is the real magic!).
I end up using notepad. The most basic version. If it wasn't funny - I would cry.
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/ say: "Just say NO to complicated programming languages!"
I say: "Just say NO NO NO to useless programming editors!"
Thank you, Shian.
