I notice that Micro$oft have released something called "Small Basic" (it's been around a while actually) which is a cousin to their QBasic and the like, designed to go with the .net framework etc. But above all, what got my attention was that it was "designed to put the fun back into programming."
It's been designed to be a simple to use second generation BASIC and seems to be aimed at youngsters and people who just want to write quick applications for their own use rather than being a development system for commercial/free aps as such. There's info about it here and a "getting started" guide which gives an idea of what it's about. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx Is this some kind of admission that people are wanting to go back to simpler, easier to learn programming systems like our S*Basic for example? What does everyone else think? -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
