09-06-2022, 04:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-06-2022, 04:58 PM by mnrvovrfc.
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You're forgetting that we're here into QB64, not "QuickBasic".
I stopped caring about "new features" and which compiler or language "product" might be better than the other. This became the same with music software for me this year. Now I choose the tool which is most convenient for the thing I want to do.
If I need to rename a large number of files, because some dumb-ass program does what it wants creating little chunks out of a big file, then I write something in Lua. If I need to fabricate a wave file quickly, same thing because I created a Lua module for it. If I needed to do that faster, I'd take up QB64 with some grumbling. Alternatively Freebasic if I wanted to muck around with pointers that looked anyhow like C++. If I ever really desired to build up the whole thing into a Windows GUI, then for the first time in about five years...
I don't care about M$ language products anymore, or anybody else's. I wanted to check out Xojo like I have said earlier but was put off by one more company expecting me to pay before I could get any comfort out of it. I'm still getting their e-mail as if I paid for a subscription, but I'm broke. Just forget about that, I don't care anymore if QB64 has ancient syntax, if Freebasic doesn't go far enough compared to Visual Basic or whatever. Just give me something that works and isn't complicated so I could do my program and the very limited thing I asked my program to do.
One of the reasons I took up QB64 was that I became impressed with Galleon's skill and determination, based on a lot of people adopting QuickBasic or QBasic for games and other things. Somebody else could have done the same thing (BaCon for instance) but with graphics and sound far beyond "DRAW" and "PLAY"? Heck yeah. (The Internet stuff also which BaCon could do as well.) If I were a "QuickBasic" fanboy or alike I would have never signed up for this forum, and I would have never taken QB64 or anything else seriously beyond M$QB v4.5 and Turbo Pascal v5.5. Probably my conception of Linux would have been different enough to care only about DOSBOX then or anything else that could run successfully those two MS-DOS applications.
I stopped caring about "new features" and which compiler or language "product" might be better than the other. This became the same with music software for me this year. Now I choose the tool which is most convenient for the thing I want to do.
If I need to rename a large number of files, because some dumb-ass program does what it wants creating little chunks out of a big file, then I write something in Lua. If I need to fabricate a wave file quickly, same thing because I created a Lua module for it. If I needed to do that faster, I'd take up QB64 with some grumbling. Alternatively Freebasic if I wanted to muck around with pointers that looked anyhow like C++. If I ever really desired to build up the whole thing into a Windows GUI, then for the first time in about five years...
I don't care about M$ language products anymore, or anybody else's. I wanted to check out Xojo like I have said earlier but was put off by one more company expecting me to pay before I could get any comfort out of it. I'm still getting their e-mail as if I paid for a subscription, but I'm broke. Just forget about that, I don't care anymore if QB64 has ancient syntax, if Freebasic doesn't go far enough compared to Visual Basic or whatever. Just give me something that works and isn't complicated so I could do my program and the very limited thing I asked my program to do.
One of the reasons I took up QB64 was that I became impressed with Galleon's skill and determination, based on a lot of people adopting QuickBasic or QBasic for games and other things. Somebody else could have done the same thing (BaCon for instance) but with graphics and sound far beyond "DRAW" and "PLAY"? Heck yeah. (The Internet stuff also which BaCon could do as well.) If I were a "QuickBasic" fanboy or alike I would have never signed up for this forum, and I would have never taken QB64 or anything else seriously beyond M$QB v4.5 and Turbo Pascal v5.5. Probably my conception of Linux would have been different enough to care only about DOSBOX then or anything else that could run successfully those two MS-DOS applications.