I am the leader of a little laboratory testing food and water, and many
of the things we do, can be made much more efficient with the aid of a
computer.
The official programs that we have to use, solve only the basic needs we
have, and
I have great joy (and use) of making programs solve the other things, and
make
my programs communicate with the official programs (PC- programs). The joy
is the same
doing it with a QL or a PC. As the programs that I try to communicate with,
are PC-Programs,
it is easier to use PC-programs. My tool is Visual Basic..
For instance, all instruments we have with some kind of I/O, are
comunicating with our
lab programs. Visiting colleagues ( in Norway), exposes that (almost) all of
them are doing many
things the old way...
Arvid
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Emne: Re: SV: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL
On Mar 8, 7:40pm, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
> I agree that programming on the QL is in fatc quite a joy - once you
> have made the effort to learn how to do it.
Programming on the PC (either in Windows or Linux) is easier from the aspect
that there is more documentation, more tools, and more people.
I like programming on the QL cause if I want to tackle a particular
programming
subject, odds are, I'd be the first to do it, thereby making my program
valuable to the QL community.
In the PC world, odds are you are not the first to do it, thereby making
your
program just another sheep in the herd.
Plus, I've been using QDOS for 15 years. 15 years of getting to know a
single
OS with minor revisions (from a SuperBasic programmer view point). In the
PC
world, 15 years covers a lot of OS revisions with major differences (MS-DOS
to
Windows being the biggest). From language of choice (Pascal in 1986 to C,
to
C++, to Java, to ....) to programming tools (many different in the PC
world).
The QL has been something I've known and I've seen no need to change.
Since I program for fun, the QL is much funner than a PC. Unix is more fun
than a PC, but no even close to the QL.
Tim Swenson
