(Poll) Why use QBASIC?
(Poll) Why use QBASIC?
I didn't know QuickBASIC (and its mutant, QBASIC) was still around.
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Last edited by historian on Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Nathan is correct, there are many people that have tried Freebasic and have given up in despair. freebasic.net can not even stand criticism, when a poll was conducted to find out whether people wanted more democracy in order to stop chaos deleting and locking threads, the response to the vote against the admin was to close the subforum.
I did hope that someone else would reply but as there does not seem to be enough interest in FB I will just add this.
Galleon,Ildurest,CG etc. are trying to bring QB into this century but the FB fanatics are trying to write a completely new language in competition with VB and .net. Give us a break , what chance do you think you have. Power Basic has to be paid for but is worth the investment if you are serious about Basic.
Galleon,Ildurest,CG etc. are trying to bring QB into this century but the FB fanatics are trying to write a completely new language in competition with VB and .net. Give us a break , what chance do you think you have. Power Basic has to be paid for but is worth the investment if you are serious about Basic.
What kind of changes to FB are you trying to avoid? I'm very new to FB, and so far I like the new capabilities. Even though there's a lot of tedious changes I've had to make to several QB programs to make them run in FB, I've been fairly pleased with the backwards-compatibility so far. Are there a number of QB commands that are going to be abandoned entirely? I guess I'm not up to speed on the evolution of FB.
Yeah, it would definitely be nice to just copy and paste from QB to FB and be able to immediately start running the program. If it used to be that way, and FB code has been changed over time so that FB is no-longer that backwards compatible, then I take your point. However, I was never under the impression that FB was ever 100% backwards compatible with QB, so I guess I never expected it to be.
As far as FB programmers knocking QB, I grant that from a language perspective, QB has a number of limits that make it difficult to accomplish certain tasks. However, from a programmer perspective, I don't see how anyone could argue that programming in FB requires a lower-level (in the sense of lower being closer to machine language) understanding of computer systems and programming in general than QB. That's one of the things I love about QBasic. It takes way more creativity and in-depth understanding to program complex games, 3d demos, utilities, etc. in QBasic than in FreeBasic. In other words, I believe that, in general, experienced QB programmers are naturally far superior to experienced FB programmers.
I'm excited about the potential for creating more complex programs with ease in FB, but I'll always come back to QBasic to challenge my understanding, gain more in-depth knowledge of how a given program runs on a machine, and often more satisfaction with the end result.
As far as FB programmers knocking QB, I grant that from a language perspective, QB has a number of limits that make it difficult to accomplish certain tasks. However, from a programmer perspective, I don't see how anyone could argue that programming in FB requires a lower-level (in the sense of lower being closer to machine language) understanding of computer systems and programming in general than QB. That's one of the things I love about QBasic. It takes way more creativity and in-depth understanding to program complex games, 3d demos, utilities, etc. in QBasic than in FreeBasic. In other words, I believe that, in general, experienced QB programmers are naturally far superior to experienced FB programmers.
I'm excited about the potential for creating more complex programs with ease in FB, but I'll always come back to QBasic to challenge my understanding, gain more in-depth knowledge of how a given program runs on a machine, and often more satisfaction with the end result.
Ok, if you'd like to play then at least follow your rules. Between now and 6 months ago, what major changes were made to break user code? How many of those decision's justifications did you disagree with? Obviously such answers will flow off your tongue.
Don't think me getting criticized was why we shut down the forum. That's just the manifestation the ugly beast took in its dying days. We had a troll problem and we solved it... fast and hard. Is this the spillover onto Pete's site?![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
P.S. This is what I expect from the people posting about how bad FB.net is http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9104
These actions are unacceptable.
Don't think me getting criticized was why we shut down the forum. That's just the manifestation the ugly beast took in its dying days. We had a troll problem and we solved it... fast and hard. Is this the spillover onto Pete's site?
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
P.S. This is what I expect from the people posting about how bad FB.net is http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9104
These actions are unacceptable.
I guess I'm confused as to what about FB caused you to become fed up with it. Like we noted earlier, it's not 100% compatible with QB (maybe not even 80-90%), but if it never was intended to be completely compatible, but rather similar enough that someone familiar with QB could start programming in FB almost immediately, I don't see how that's a problem.roy wrote:The reference to six months meant the time it would take Stoves to get fed up with it.
I packed up FB after two months but that was a long time ago.
Now I will hand back to Nodtveidt as the troublemaker because I have made my point and am getting fed up with this stupid argument.
I've liked FB so far, because there hasn't been a many brand new things I had to know to start coding, and there's a ton of new powerful features that let me do a lot of new things with ease.
I'm sure I'm ignorant of most of the issues, but I'm just curious what about FB was making you fed up with it and what you think will make me fed up with it?