Re: GSoft BASIC Ramble

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

There are still many BASIC out there, typically used for some special
tasks. For example, DarkBASIC is a popular game oriented BASIC.

It just depends on what you used to build the language for - if it is
something for learning and graphics, there will be a room for BASIC -
this is how I remembered what Applesoft is, and it introduced me to
the wonderful of programming.

The last question - will people pay - is harder to answer.

On 5月11日, 下午9时55分, Mike Westerfield <Mike...@aol.com> 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!