Dilwyn said - ".......................OK, it'll always be handy to be able to write quick s*basic programs for my own use ....................." =============================================================== & now George has said -
".................Rewriting for a PC or whatever is just not an option for me. I also use QPC2 for programming, both in SBASIC especially for quick one off results, and in Assembler. I have tried Visual Basic on a PC and I did not like it. Assembler on Intel chips is pretty ghastly. A new user of QPC2, say, would, I imagine, almost certainly want to use it for programming - and almost certainly not for the word processors etc available. ........" ================================================================= I entirely agree. The easy access to s*basic is one of the major trump-cards in the hands of QLers. Many of us began in a 'home-programming' type environment . Remember the thrill? Taking on board the comments of Malcolm and other contributors I continue to believe (as I wrote in QUANTA some ? years ago) that to get the best in the QL community, novices or returners must be comfortable with QL community jargon. I remember that, in that article, I gave sample facts and figures (re: jargon, albeit *necessary* jargon) from the then current QL community writings. What I suggested then was something like - the next time a 'QL Post Uncle Clive Techie Term' [QLPUCTT!] was published, it should be added by the writer to a central QL glossary [CQLG?] (if it were not already listed, of course). There would be one master glossary which would be widely known and bundled into QL legacy speak, practice and publications. Then, I for one, would have a better chance of catching up - of course I already know Jan Jones et al intimately (!) "Sir, wot's a Coldfire?"; "Sir wot's a Hermes?"; "Miss, where can I find out wot's a Miracle Expansion?","Can I wear it?" etc etc...... Purely rhetorical boys and girls! With universal and unambiguous best wishes, John in Wales (or 'GoBoyGo' as Tony called me!) _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
