look inside. this is outrageous.
<snip from basic.doc>
- because BASIC is an old "ad-hoc" language that carries 25 years of
redundant, excess baggage along with it
<end snip>
And Rob Craig calls THAT a reason to write a prog in Euphoria instead of
BASIC??? What's the matter with programming in a language with a history,
respect, and fans???
It's kinda and HONOR to write in a language with a history. There's
nothing wrong with the other 11 reasons, but this 9th reason is
totally...outrageous! What do you guys have against 25 years of
breakthroughs, inventions, ideas, and mostly GAMES behind it? How many
BASIC stuff can you find in file libraries? Thousands!!! And how about
Euphoria? Not much that i've seen lately except on those Eu web pages.
<another snip>
- because there is no effective standard for BASIC across different
machines
and there probably never will be -- i totally agree on this one, Rob
- because QBasic provides no built-in functions for using a mouse -- But
you have to write dumb old machine code to use the mouse in QB!
- because QBasic does not support SVGA graphics -- ooo. SVGA graphics in
QB. Forget it.
<end snip>
now those are absolutely TERRIFIC.
<snip>
- because Euphoria is 10 to 20 times faster than Microsoft QBasic
(see demo\bench)
<end snip>
Ya, but QuickBASIC is the king of ALL BASICs!
<snip>
- because Euphoria checks for uninitialized variables - BASIC just
quietly sets them to 0
<end snip>
yup, that could be a problem...
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