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Article #566Re: beginner
From: ArarghMail702NOSPAM
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:49
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:49
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:57:49 -0600, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote: >On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:50:16 -0600, ArarghMail702NOSPAM wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:29:11 -0600, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote: <snip> >>>Ick... I, unfortunately, learned BASIC as my first language. Don't >>>bother learning all those things you will have to unlearn. If you start >>>with a language with a global variable scope, no functions and is built >>>around using goto you're going to have a hard time making the transition >>>to a language that thinks all of those things are blaspheme. >> >> That must have been a LONG time ago, on a very primitive BASIC. > >Indeed it was (Apple IIe). Someone gave me an Apple IIe some time back. No software, however. > >> Modern BASICs have functions, subroutines, local variables, global >> variables, (in between variables), common variables . . . > >I had no idea BASIC had evolved... or that anyone had bothered to make it >evolve. Just take a look at QBasic (comes with DOS 5. . . & Win9x). It has a lot of the features that the for pay versions have. >> I spent YEARS (well months, anyway) trying to figure out the variable >> scope rules for PDS. (ms quickbasic 7.10) Not sure that I ever did. > >Now that I've spent a considerable amount of time with C++ I wish it had >been the first language I worked with. About the only way I can understand C programs (beyond very simple ones) is to feed it thru the compiler and read the corresponding asm code. :-) The GUI versions of VB, also. -- ArarghMail702 at [drop the 'http://www.' from ->] http://www.arargh.com BCET Basic Compiler Page: http://www.arargh.com/basic/index.html To reply by email, remove the garbage from the reply address.
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