Re: Structured Programming: QB IS STRUCTURED!!!
Vincent wrote:
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> Chris Burch wrote:
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> > Why? I haven't used QBASIC for 20 years.
>
> There you go. 
>
> I'm comfused at why Lynn would be using such old programming technology in
> 2006!
> I mean considering that there is a newer generation of Visual Basic and .NET
> tools offered by Microsoft. Qbasic has not been supported for a good decade
> I think, and is virtually dead today. In fact, the operating system it was
> designed
> to run on is also dead. We have a buggy emulation of it now (if that) which
> is only suitable for toying around, running ancient software, or developing
> batch file scripts.
>
> If Lynn went into a chatroom with discussion about modern programming, they'd
> quickly laugh when they discover how enthusatstic Lynn is about ancient
> Qbasic!
>
> No affense Lynn.
Actually, QBasic is still very popular with numerous websites, forums, and
chatrooms devoted to it. It even experienced a jump in recent years since the
open-source clone FreeBASIC came out. You can still find books on QBasic at any
bookstore and new ones get released (and rereleased) occasionally. I almost
recently bought the QBasic version of "Numerical Recipes" off Amazon since my
dept. at work lost our Fortran version (I ended up not buying it after finding a
co-worker who had the C edition). I also used QB professionally until about 2004
or something when I started using Euphoria for our simple/throwaway DOS stuff.
Also, interesting fact, Ken Silverman (the creator of the BUILD engine used in
Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Redneck Rampage, etc.) still writes the
code for his projects in QBasic for testing before porting it to C for
efficiency.
The Euphoria Standard Library project :
http://esl.sourceforge.net/
The Euphoria Standard Library mailing list :
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/esl-discussion
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