19 Aug
2001
19 Aug
'01
6:13 a.m.
>THAT is why beginners should start off with a
"trivial" language and
>"trivial" assignments before they get into the real body of programming.
>BASIC is excellent for getting those beginning concepts. Then, as soon as
>those concepts are down, they should switch to a "real" language :-)
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
While I agree that BASIC is a good starting point to
get into
programming, I think that BASIC itself is a lot more powerful than
most people give it credit. I've written any number of database
I wrote the original Xeno-Copy in BASIC. The commercial versions that
Vertex published were compiled with BASCOM. Even the manipulation of Int
1E was in BASIC, and the only "machine language" was to do calls to Int
13. (BTW, the various "levels" for differing prices that Vertex insisted
on have a single byte different to enable/disable certain capabilities.)
I was very glad when I could get a usable C compiler (DeSmet) for creating
XenoCopy-PC, and it was a lot easier to implement some minor assembly
language functions.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com