Re: QBasic/BASIC programmers learning Euphoria
- Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jun 01, 1998
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At 02:13 PM 5/28/98 -0400, Wally Riley wrote: >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. -------------------------------------- I'm glad you said "in my experience"! Actually, there are hundreds of Euphoria programs that work just fine. Sort of like my saying "These @$%$* Brazilians don't understand anything I say!", is it not? Considering I only know 4 words of Portuguese. One of the reasons we all have problems with translation - BASIC to whatever - is that BASIC code is not required to be neat and well structured, and so seldom is. Some languages encourage or enforce these things. By saying this, I don't intend to start a language war. I think Chinese is too complicated, but here are a few (billion) Chinese that beg to differ. Somehow they managed to learn. Enough said? Regards, Irv