On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Michael Watterson wrote= : > On 26/07/2011 22:14, Don McKenzie wrote: > > Remember the TRS80 computers from the late 1970's? What about programmi= ng > in QBasic in the 90's? Well, this little > > computer will bring back some memories. Even if you don't remember thos= e > wonderful things from the early days of PC's, > > you will still find the Maximite interesting, and useful! > > > > Qbasic was terrible. > > In fact all BASIC was terrible till about VB5, when you could pretend it > wasn't basic. A PIC32 ought to be able to run a JVM quite well. > (rant on) Nah, BASIC is terrible in terms of doing anything serious thing on it. VB5 is *not* Basic -- it is like Pascal or Turbo Pascal -- you do not want to programming in Pascal, that was only to learn structured programming while Turbo Pascal was quite useful. Basic was only to have fun with the home computers. VB5 and other 'Basic' implementation that is not required line numbers and stuff are like C# over C (except the fact that in C you still can do many things and at some extent is better than C#). As the name implies VB5 is no= t even Basic, that is 'Visual Basic', so no, Basic was and will never be a good language, maybe only their successors like Visual Basic... (rant off) Tamas > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .