Dang, Will. Did Bill Gates frighten you as a child or something? You should talk to a therapist. ;)
You may not be aware of it, but BASIC was not invented by Microsoft: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~bergmann/history.html Not that I'm defending BASIC or Microsoft, but it was the first language I learned when I was 14. From a book no less, without access to a computer. John Hebert will hill wrote: > It can't be worse than anything than Microsoft. Ugh, I actually felt ill > making a directory named "learn_basic" to put that thing in. It's got to be > better than Access and VB Script from M$. > > On 2003.10.30 17:35 John Hebert wrote: > >>I just started doing serious VB programming last February. Since the >>OpenOffice IDE/Basic resembles the VB IDE/Basic, I'm making quick >>progress in database programming in OpenOffice! Hope to soon be M$ free! >>Life is good. >> >>If you are interested: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php, specifically: >>http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1826-10 >> >>WARNING: I read a reference that said that Sun's macro programming doc >>is old and contains errors, so YMMV. Everything works so far for me, but >>I just started today. :) >> >>John Hebert >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
