OpenEuphoria

Re: A Little QBasic help

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Aug 06, 1998
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Alan Tu wrote:
>
> >>>>>
> I was wondering if anyone could give me a hand

> Chris,
>
> I was a QBasic programmer for a month, before I got into Euphoria.  Looking
> at your code, I went "Wow, looks so awkward".  Would have to actually go
> into help and look up all that stuff

Believe it. I haven't programmed in Basic in about 10 years, so I _did_
go look it up. Not all that bad, just some awkward conversions.

> Anyway, in general, now I'm kind of scared, because I'm taking a high
> school QBasic course in the fall (signed up for it before I know Euphoria).
>  Its a prereq to Visual Basic.

One good thing - you'll have a big head-start, since you are already
in the habit of structuring your programs. Something Basic doesn't
require, but I'll bet the instructor does!

> Last thing.  A better title from "euphoria folks" would be Euphorians.  We
> are really another race, come to liberate the Earth from the C empire and
> the BASIC minions.
>
He,he... I like that.

Irv