At 09:06 PM 7/27/2011, Rugxulo wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net> wrote: > > At 11:08 PM 7/26/2011, Rugxulo wrote: > > > >>Well, .BAT isn't exactly Turing complete, last I checked. > > > > Why would that possibly matter? > >Hmmm? The whole point was about what is/was included by default, e.g. >DEBUG vs. QBASIC or LINK or EXE2BIN vs. nothing. So .BAT is often >called a "scripting language", but it's not even close to being useful >for anything outside very simple things. I mean, I've seen some >strange hacks, but .BAT is far from ideal for normal computations.
It's not supposed to do "computations", it's for file scripting. Do due with what's available... > >>GW-BASIC is fine if you like it. Most will complain about line > >>numbers. > > > > What's wrong with line numbers? > >To me? Nothing besides a little inconvenience. To others it's a deal >breaker. Look, I'm far from a BASIC guru (and I also like esolangs), >so it wouldn't bother me. But I've read (over and over and over) about >how people "hate BASIC" and "spaghetti code" from line numbers. >Remember that QBASIC was hugely popular (and still is), and it was >optional there. I'm no zealot, but the structured programming ideal >had a fair point. Yeah, it's easy for people to jump on a bandwagon when they hear/read "over and over" things like this. But I am sure that not even a small percentage of those folks that keep repeating that stuff never actually used it (or even tried). I have seen more "spaghetti code" in C/C++/Java/C#/Ruby/Python/etc than I have ever seen in BASIC. It's not the programming language that's used that is the problem, it's the programmer that doesn't know how to use it (properly)... > > As I already mentioned, too many people these days don't seem to > > know/remember what DOS was and how it was used for more than a > > decade. And nobody really complained and the PC world still kept > advancing... > >Some of us can't remember because we weren't there. I only first used >MS-DOS 6 in 1994. Have been using DOS since January '82, when we got at a former employer an IBM-PC on loan for 4 weeks from Computerland in Bonn. Was running a modified PC DOS 1.01 to support the 10MB harddrive from Corvus, with a whooping 256KB RAM. Later that year, after we had to give the IBM back, we got one of the first Sirus-1, a luxury model compared to the IBM, with 1.2MB floppy drives, 896KB of RAM and 800x400 "highres" (mono) graphics. That one had already MS-DOS 1.25. And before we had to give that one back, we got (as HP software OEM) a prototype of the HP-150, running what was becoming MS-DOS 2.01, 640KB RAM and 2x720KB 3.5" floppy drives. But at that time, we preferred the HP-9816, a non-DOS 68000 based "workstation", running HP ("Rocky Mountain")BASIC in ROM or UCSD Pascal/FORTRAN from the same 9121 floppy drives from the HP-150, or even the HP-85/86, also programmed/running in HP BASIC, all with line numbers, still nice structured programs... ;-) Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel