[Lowfer] Basic vs VB

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:57:49 -0500

And if you are adventurous, you might consider learning a new language and
porting the code to Perl. It is my experience that anyone who is fluent in
Basic can pick perl up rather easily.

Mike
wa1ptc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John Davis
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 7:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Basic vs VB
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>
> Ed writes:
>
> > I'm convinced now that it is a bad idea (at least for
> > me).  The problem with the DOS versions is the limited array
> > size, unless anyone knows a way around that.
>
> Might want to look at www.powerbasic.com/products/ and see if
> some of their
> products might be the solution.
>
> There are versions that compile BASIC code for the 32-bit Windows console
> mode, others that compile for the Windows GUI, and a fairly
> advanced version
> for plain DOS.
>
> John
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