Allan
From: roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "Cooker List (Mandrake)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Cooker] BASIC
Date: 13 Jan 2003 03:22:44 -0800
Why not just learn Bash Shell scripting? It is very very similar to
basic.
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 03:00, Allan Mee wrote:
> Hi
> I just thought I'd mention I got XBasic to work ok (still trying to get
> SmallBasic to run) - but at least I can know start on writing some stuff for
> Linux. Although I can program in C/C++ and x86 assembly - my preferred
> language is a good BASIC - in the last twenty years, I've used over 400
> dialects of BASIC and worked as a programmer for 8 years. I even won over my
> tutors at college to BASIC (from C) when I did my IT degree :)
> I still write Visual BAsic programs - occasionally even commercially!
> It would be great if XBASIC (or any good BASIC) was shipped with Mandrake
> and other distros. I suspect we would probably see much more software being
> written for Linux if BASIC was shipped with it.
> Allan
>
>
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