Expectations, Tasks and assignments (was: Assembly vs. Everything

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon Aug 20 11:24:35 2001

on 8/20/01 11:24 AM, Jeffrey S. Sharp at jss_at_subatomix.com wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, R. D. Davis wrote:
>> BASIC is also a lot more annoying than a lot of people give it credit
>> for being.
> Hear, hear! A co-worker and I once wrote a program in Visual Basic that
> ended up being a little over 65K lines, and then we maintained it for two
> years. I'm now agnostic.

    Programming in VB is totally different than regular BASIC. It's a
totally different approach with attaching snippets of code to individual
buttons and such. I bought the first version when it came out and didn't
care for it. It might be nice for tossing together an interface but for a
program that actually did something useful I'll stick to PowerBasic. The
executables are small and they'll run under anything from DOS 2.X on up to
Windows NT. Haven't tried running one under Win 2000 or later. Plus, with
PB all you have after compiling is the end executable, not all the DLL's and
such you have to deal with from MS products.

    Jeff
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