Re: My First Computer

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net>]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 22:22:53 GMT, BJ <dontspamme@nosirree.net> wrote:

>But, COME'ON people, you still program in BASIC using GOTOs or GOSUBs?
>TI XB had CALL statements with SUBPROGRAMS since 1980 or so, and
>QBASIC has SUBPROGRAMS and FUNCTIONS (real Pascal type functions, not
>the DEFFN one-liners).
>Why are you comparing present-day languages to the BASIC of the
>1970s!?!?

I've been wondering the same thing myself.  I currently make a living
by writing software in BASIC mostly using a language called
PowerBASIC.  It is an incredibly fast, lean BASIC compiler for Windows
that supports subs, functions, include files, macros, using some COM
objects and even supports inline assembly.  It also has some built in
commands to make writing GUI programs under Windows a little easier
for programmers not familiar with the Windows API.  You can create COM
servers, DLLs and Windows executables with this language.

This is nothing like BASIC from the 70's and 80's.

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