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In alt.lang.basic, wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:

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>>happen any day now (early September according to my sources).

>I have VB (version 1 I guess, it doesn't say on the box) and I don't
>like 
>a) won't do peeks/pokes/in's/out's

This gripes me too, however Microhelp (1-800-992-3383) sells a toolkit
that does peeks/pokes.  If you have access to CompuServe the MSBASIC 
forum has a file called INOUT.ZIP in the VB library that gives you allows
peeks and pokes.  After looking it over though it becomes obvious why
Microsoft didn't put this in VB "out of the box" as poking indiscriminately
around in Windows can cause some serious corruption that is dangerous
to virtually every file on your hard disk!  Not for the faint-hearted...
Definitely not for someone who just bought VB yesterday and thinks of
Windows as being no more than a pretty shell.

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>I'd rather not mess with external libraries and junk.
>If I wanted to do that, I'd also slide down the sharp end of a razor
>blade on my balls, or learn C.

Why are external libraries and "junk" a problem?  It allows you to add
capabilities to your language that you didn't have before.  No software
house (even Microsoft) can produce a language that has every feature 
that everybody could ever possibly want to use.  Libraries allow you to
add new features to a language without having to roll a new version out
the door to your customers every three days....

Fact of life for a software developer - you can't please everyone.  You
try to please as many as you can now and try to please (some of) the others
later.

- Galen -