Re: C compiler & euphoria editor(s)
Robert Craig wrote (June 17, I must wake up):
"... I never really used QBasic, and I was surprised
to find that many QBasic users consider an editor to be
an integral part of a programming language. From my
background, mainly C, an editor is a completely separate
tool, and everyone uses the editor of their choice, without
regard to the language they are programming in."
I can agree with that, but then I started programming way back in the
Mesozoic, when everybody knew you needed a good compiler and a good
programmer's editor, which were two separate and distinct things. Your
dreams came true when you found an editor like Brief, which could be
configured relative to the language you were programming in, and even could
let you compile and debug withour exiting. Sheer joy.
I ran across my first IDE some time in the late seventies: Informix, running
on SCO Xenix. I though it was a good idea, though I still did most of my
work on vi (there's a real love/hate story in that). As more and more IDEs
appeared, I found out that some were there just for cosmetics, or to ease
your way into the language (as I believe is the case with QBasic's), and
some really worked fine along with the compiler, and were worth using. I
still use external editors (mostly Brief, vi, NoteTab and even good old F4
on the Midnight Commander), but for quick and easy drag-and-drop
out-of-the-shelf programming there's no editor that can beat an IDE.
But wait a sec ... doesn't anybody know that QBasic actually has __no__
editor? None at all, my friends. What you see is just a copy of good old
Edit.com, magically invoked in a secret special way only Mr Gates &
upper-level acolytes know. Don't believe me? Do this: move Edit.com out of
the DOS directory, to another directory which is not know to the PATH
envvar. Then call QBasic.
Btw, if any of you nostalgics believe that QBasic was dropped out of Win98,
wrong again. It's not included in the OEM distributions, but it does come
with the CD-ROM, under "Old DOS" or something. Cheers.
Gerardo E. Brandariz
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