From: fmanning@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/26
Date: 1999-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b713p$rtk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-2602992126370001@dale.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au
In article <dale-2602992126370001@dale.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote:
> bill bill@newsguy.com wrote:
>
> > Actually I played with VB a little (for about 5 hrs). It is Ok
> > I guess as a language. The problem is that I'll be stuck on Windoz
> > for the rest of me life with it since that where it only exists.
>
> A VB lookalike is available on the Macintosh (RealBasic), which I
> have read is 99% source code compatable.
There's more -- a VB lookalike is available for a small 8-bit
microcontroller (shameless plug follows). BasicX uses a language
that's upward compatible with VB.
To finesse this discussion back to Ada -- the BasicX compiler uses
strong typing. For-loop counters are also restricted to discrete
types, and step sizes are limited to +/-1.
There's even a compiler switch that implements for-loop semantics
that are very similar to those of Ada. That is, loop counters are
read-only within the loop, can be passed only by value (similar to
Ada's mode in), and are not visible outside their loops.
That's what happens when the compiler author (me) is a big fan
of Ada.
-- Frank Manning
-- NetMedia, Inc.
-- http://www.basicx.com
-- fmanning at netmedia.com
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-18 0:00 CompUSA New Policy David Botton
1999-02-24 0:00 ` schrader01
1999-02-24 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fmanning [this message]
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Tony Gair
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
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