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Re: GSoft BASIC Ramble
To: Mike Westerfield
On Sun, 11 May 2008 06:55:58 -0700, Mike Westerfield wrote:
> BOOST is written in Java. As it turns out, it would not be an
> insurmountable task to turn BOOST into a stand-alone BASIC for the
> Java byte code machine, allowing you to use BASIC to write code that
> would run on virtually any platform or browser. I've never been quite
> sure if this was a good idea. Is BASIC still welcome in 2008? Would a
> non-Jave language really be welcome for the Java JVM? If so, why
> haven't other people done it? (All the languages I see for the JVM are
> toy languages or ports of scripting languages.) Will people really pay
> for compilers these days? I am still not the the point in my career
> where I can work for free!
Hi Mike. Its been a long time since we last messaged.
I don't know about other people, but myself, I'm all for BASIC. I still
use a language called PowerBASIC on my Windows machine and wouldn't even
consider switching to C, C++, C#, Java or whatever. However, I am
limited to only writing Windows programs because the compiler has never
been ported anywhere else.
Having a BASIC that works under a Java Virtual Machine would be kind of
neat as programs could be run on all sorts of operating systems and
devices.
As to whether I'd buy such a BASIC, it would depend on whether I get
back to work at any time in the near future. I'm currently on a work
shortage layoff and even once I get back to work I have some debts that
need to be dealt with first. I could possibly convince my brother to
buy something like that, though, and I could help him on his projects
until I could buy something like that myself. :-)
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