I totaly agree : almost all what I learn on the QL 15 years ago is still up
to date. In PC world no one finish a (commercial) program because when it is
on the market environment had moved (OS, machine, memory, ...) and there is
no time left for feed back (and correction). I suspect development teams are
already drop when the product is sold.
To be compared with, says, continuous support for C68 by Dave Walker team
since 1992 or last update in Prowess (now in public domain) by PROGS
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Timothy Swenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Envoyé : jeudi 8 mars 2001 21:07
À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet : 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
