04-27-2022, 04:19 PM
(04-27-2022, 03:29 PM)bplus Wrote: @Coolman
I am curious of your Basic background.
My first exposure was in college in early - mid 70's with Unix Basic but my real love started with GW Basic in 89 with an 8088 PC clone faux Windows grew to QB4.5 on an 486... 91 or 92
It'd Be great way to introduce yourself.
it's a long story. you asked for it. i started on amstrad cpc, atari st (gfa basic). then under dos i used intensively the quickbasic interpreter. i bought the quickbasic compiler and turbo basic. i did some c with quickc but i have to admit that i don't like the syntax of this language. all this as an amateur. i used professionally windev for management programs for years. now i'm retired. programming is just a hobby for my personal use. i currently use freebasic freepascal for command line programs and lazarus python3 (with tkinter) for GUI programs. i gave up windows about 2.5 years ago. i use linux. i've clearly never seen such a stable system. i like the opensource philosophy. i don't really use qb64. i have the 1.5 and 2.01 versions isolated with firejail. i test on it some source codes found in forums. some of them are impressive. actually, i got qb64 phoenix edition. i compiled it under linux and isolated it with firejail to make a comparison. with firejail i can run all versions at the same time without any problem. so far qb64pe has compiled all the source code without any error. strangely qb64 2.01 does not compile the source code of qb64pe. i'm also interested in different basic interpreters. i'm thinking of using them for scripting under linux. i've always found quickbasic under dos excellent because it allowed me to prototype program very quickly...
to all the others. thanks again for the welcome.