[Lowfer] Basic / VB Issues

[Peter Barick]

Was [Re: [Lowfer] HP 3586b SVM and HPIB/GPIB interface]
Re: Basic/ Visual Basic Programming

Hi Ed,

Saw your perplexity on Basic pgmg issues. Maybe I can offer some
ideas.

I'm an employed programmer for business systems using VB. I also use
Basic for my own stuff, like home projects for my older 386/486s where a
GUI isn't wanted.

But to your issue or doing math in Basic or VB, yup ya can. In VB I see
trig, power, log and sq root fcns in my McFedries VB book [SAMS].
Further, as in all languages, there are "toolboxes" available for
esoteric functions of all sorts. If I needed something like that to
extend a language, I'd chime into an enthusiast group and ask for a
particular-need ref. there.

Consider, though, the genealogy, VB is part of a continuum built upon
Basic. To my knowledge Basic is not being developed, that is now given
to VB, a GUI managing component of MS office suites. Also, VB is written
in C and C-do-anything routines can be called for most extreme or
specialized tasks. But don't let the names confuse, VB can do non-GUI
pgmng but needs the GUI (Windows) environment to do it. I like it for
development and the way it can be structured, but all of that calls for
more overhead that good 'ol Basic doesn't. I prefer QuickBasic, the
latest by MS.

Peter
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>>> evp@pacbell.net 03/22/02 05:31PM >>>
John:

	You mention "using a BASIC (visual basic being the best)
program". 
I've seen many references to using VBASIC instead of BASIC, with which
I'm quite familiar as I've been using it for almost 40 years.  I have
several VBASIC manuals including one from Microsoft, . . .