>At 08:18 AM 12/10/99 -0500, [someone, Mitch?] [allegedly] wrote:
>>I too think the articles in Dr. Dobbs journal are encouraging; but on the
>>other hand, Dobb's is mostly for hardcore techies. I look forward to the day
>>when we see how-to articles in more mainstream magazines. That won't happen
>>until the development tools become more mainstream. I look back on what the
>>Basic interpreter did for pc's. Does anybody out there think that some sort
>>of interpreter with Basic-like syntax would be a major boon, at least in
>>terms of making Palm programming more attractive to hobbiests and even
>>professional programmers? I've played around with CBAS, and with all due
>>respect, it's a start, but it's a long way off from being a serious
>>development tool. Does anyone have any opinions about why such a critter
>>doesn't exist commercially yet?
Actually there are at least 2 new commercial BASIC programming
environments
for the PalmOS platform in beta test right now.
There is my own HotPaw Basic: <http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/hotpaw/>
and there is StylusWare Basic: <http://www.StylusWare.com>
(as well as the freeware cbasPad classic, which is quite limited because
it was designed to work under PalmOS 1.0.)
Satellite Forms also has a "Basic-like" syntax to their scripting
language.
IMHO. YMMV.
--
Ron Nicholson
HotPaw
http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/palm/
