Actually, I'd call it more of a "scripting language" than anything else.
Steve Wallace
Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
At 11:29 PM 01/14/2000 +1000, Robert Crossley wrote:
>I know this will raise the hackles for the OO purists, but lets not get
>confuse the interface with its function. Mapbasic does not have the same
>syntax or functions as most object languages used today, and it would not
>qualify by many of the characteristics that define an object oriented
>language. But its a programming language that allows you to control a
>program that is.
>
>You're right, the interface sucks after you've worked with development
>environments like VB, but its still a very powerful language to develop
>MapInfo applications. A very long time ago I worked with a 4th generation
>language that was object orientated before they coined the phrase, but it
>compiled its code to fairly basic C code that you could look at before
>going to an executable. The point... beyond all the glitz and hype, it
>was still procedural code. You can still write your code in Mapbasic to
>take advantage of many OO principles.... even if you have to save the file,
>compile it and link it manually and run it....to see where your list box
>will sit in the dialog.
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