Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:53 am
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Even though to use FB to its maximum potential you have to go through an equivillant learning curve to C, it is not nessesary to do that to get started in coding FB (as you said), so I'd argue that that means FB's learning curve becomes a hell of a lot less steep, because you can bring advanced features into your familiar code one by one, at your own pace, where as C requires a working knowlage of everything for anything to work, which means by the time you get anything to work in C, your good enough to code anything in it.It's like going from BASIC to C...many will tell you that "ZOMG C IS TEH POEWRFULLEST" and maybe it is more powerful than BASIC...but to make use of that power, there's a steep learning curve you have to get over that has chewed up and spit out many a hopeful programmer. FB is similar...it is a powerful language, but to use its power, you have to tackle its learning curve.
You just restated what I had said in the first place...you realize that, right?m2j wrote:Even though to use FB to its maximum potential you have to go through an equivillant learning curve to C, it is not nessesary to do that to get started in coding FB (as you said), so I'd argue that that means FB's learning curve becomes a hell of a lot less steep, because you can bring advanced features into your familiar code one by one, at your own pace, where as C requires a working knowlage of everything for anything to work, which means by the time you get anything to work in C, your good enough to code anything in it.
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#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("Hello, world!\n");
getchar();
return 0;
}
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program hello;
{This of course, has none of the sections needed to declare anything}
Begin
writeln('Hello, World!');
readln();
End
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Print "Hello, world!"
sleep
And PR is...matt wrote:matt - on a serious PR salvaging mission...
I have some suggestions:Captainlazy wrote:.....
on my desktop i now have freebasic, qbasic 1.1, quickbasic 7.1 and qbasic 4.5. To be honest i'm more confused than ever.....
im getting back into it because i just enjoy programming and want to make progs for my own use (that satisfaction of completing your own program).....
The general feeling however seems to be that freebasic is fantastic, wonderful and great, while qbasic in all its versions is dead. There must be drawbacks though - or am i wong? I'm happy using qbasic BUT at the same time i dont want to miss out! i suppose i just want to be convinced - or maybe i dont know what i want?!!? AAARrrggghh!!!
It lacks afew keywords that are most commonly used in company applications. For game making FB is clearly superior, for app making it's pretty much tied unless you need the extra speed, stability, and libraries that FB provideNathan1993 wrote:what drawbacks of fb?
I think that's how it went, that is going to be next month's quote...MystikShadows wrote:To err is human, but to really screw up you need C++