I still keep QBasic around for the odd job now and again but only because I'm slightly better at it than I am (yet) at Perl.
Another freeware gem is Ubasic (search www.google.com for "ubibm math" (without quotes) to find sites.) It is a traditional BASIC interpreter but allows numbers to be incredibly long which makes it great for number theory programs. If there is a limit to number length, I don't know what it is. I've played with computations that were a couple of hundred digits long. Then again, if you just want to have fun without actually accomplishing too much useful, there's always Logo. :) I was also a kind of a fan of Borland's "Turbo" languages - Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, etc. They had a really nice user interface without too much clutter like MS's Visual Studio has. But if we're going to walk down memory lane, there was nothing like writing assembler by hand then burning it into PROM's using a 6V lantern battery. Install them in an S100 card and *poof* an Altair 8800 with some brains! Sure made it a nicer machine to use! I've also written cube root programs on an IBM 604 calculating punch but that's really showing my age. :) Valerie > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > intertwingled > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'Lee Goddard'; 'Hudson T. Clark'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is Perl A Dead end? > > > Actually, Q-Basic (QuickBasic) is not a bad little language > at all. And > come to think of it, it's the last GOOD language ever to come out of > Microsoft. > > Tony _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
