From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a4a373312601ca4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fmanning@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy Date: 1999/02/26 Message-ID: <7b713p$rtk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 448824901 References: <36CC64A1.3E98D9B4@Botton.com> <7avmc6$gvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b16dn$p0e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb24.131906.1@eisner> <7b3oah$teq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4lhn$465@drn.newsguy.com> <7b53kl$6f1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b59m9$a4v@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 PROVIDER, 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 208.235.167.9 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 26 20:44:44 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98) Date: 1999-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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 -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own