Re: I just came up with a REALLY stupid idea...

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Steve Nickolas" <lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx> wrote
in message lyricalnanoha-1266991727@macgui.com">news:lyricalnanoha-1266991727@macgui.com...
> Bill Garber wrote:
>> "Steve Nickolas" <lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx> wrote
>> in message lyricalnanoha-1266984722@macgui.com">news:lyricalnanoha-1266984722@macgui.com...
>>> Bill Garber wrote:
>>>> I have a very stupid question;  Is EHBASIC finished?
>>>
>>> The ON ERROR code is rather difficult for someone
>>> who, like me, isn't much good at real deep drilling
>>> into other people's code. :P
>>>
>>> I do think, actually, that I have a *general* idea
>>> of where and what to code.  It's not specific yet.
>>> I might put up the 0.8.5 with the code not actually
>>> done (but the hooks/tokens are there, and the related
>>> pseudovariables ERR and ERL, and the command ERROR,
>>> *are* there and work).
>>
>> Ok, so are you saying it's not done, and not likely
>> to ever get done?
>>
>
> I'm saying it's not done.  I'm hoping to pull it off,
> but I'm not all that great a coder.  If you look over
> the code, and figure out what I've written myself, as
> opposed to copying from fpbasic, copying from pdos-rdos,
> copying from elsewhere in the program - it boils down to
> most of the "prent" (Print Entry) function used by CAT.
> (And you can see just how ugly it is.) Seriously...that's
> about all the code I've written myself for ehbasic.
>
> I'm not a genius, certainly nowhere near the level of
> most of you here - just a well-versed idiot with a large
> arsenal at my disposal.  I think it's by sheer force of
> will I get *anywhere* with the code I develop.

Please don't misunderstand, I'm no way a programmer at all,
and I'm not being critical by any means. What I am doing
is merely suggesting that if you stay with it, you may find
that you will improve more than if you jump around. This
much I know from my own experience of jumping from one thing
to another, and never finishing anything.

I have so many started projects, I kind of wonder why I've
even bothered to keep this stuff. Many is the time I have
just wanted to give it all away and just watch TV.  ;-)

Bill