Re: Basic for MacIntosh

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From: Anthony E. Siegman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:52

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trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper) writes:

>True Basic is a very nice BASIC development system from the company of
>the same name...... I would recommend it over MS Basic for anyone
>who needs to program in Basic.

   This depends to some extent on what you want to do.  I haven't used
True Basic, so perhaps shouldn't comment, but I believe because it's
intended to run on many platforms, so far as graphics and other
capabilities are concerned you may be largely limited to the user
interface built into True Basic itself; and can only take limited
advantage of the unique Mac GUI capabilities.  And for some of the
extended capabilities you may have to buy not only the program itself
but various of the additional libraries.

   Microsoft QuickBASIC on the other hand provides quite full (and
quite easy) direct access to all the Mac GUI and Mac Toolbox
capabilities, menus, windows, QuickDraw commands, dialog boxes,
buttons, scroll bars, and so on; allowing one to build and compile
fully Mac-like double-clickable applications.

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From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Re: Basic for MacIntosh
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