Out of interest, I downloaded Small Basic and ran the descending loop. It worked fine.
Laurie On 16 January 2016 at 11:26, AndyHC <[email protected]> wrote: > The latest excellent (if daunting) offering by Verity Stob on The Register > linked to i-programmer.com (well worth a look if, like me, you haven't > come across it before). That in turn led me to look at ms Simple Basic - a > learners' programming language. I was musing on whether ms might be > persuaded to come up with 'Visual Foxcub' - but was a bit put off when I > noticed on the forum that ms implementation was less than thorough: > <quote> > Thiago# > > This following ... code in Introducing Small Basic: > > For i = 10 To 1 Step -1 > TextWindow.WriteLine(i) > EndFor > > is not working! > thanks! > > Vijaye Raji# > > Thanks for reporting that Thiago. > That's a bug in the compiler which we'll fix for the next release. > </quote> > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAMvTR9d=bqh0j1-_0yybj9pd5dzhybdvg4dbxftzs4qqcpl...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

