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From: d89-bfr@sm.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Microsoft Basic Windows development system ?
Message-ID: <1654@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 30 May 91 13:07:27 GMT
References: <1742@west.West.Sun.COM>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Angus.Fox@UK.Sun.COM (Angus Fox) writes:

>Heard that Gates & Co have found their love for basic again and are 
>producing an
>SDK based on Basic.

Wrong wrong wrong. The name is correct, but there is no connection with the
BASIC programming language.

>Anybody have more concrete information?

It's a graphical environment for developing windows programs. I got a demo
diskette from Microsoft today, but to be honest I wasn't impressed. The two
programs made with the system looked neat, but they were SLOW! I don't
remember exactly what the readme file said, but it was a system through which
you create a "shell" for your program, and then you just enter the
code for what the program will do in the specific events. The two demo
programs on the diskette (an icon editor, and a program telling you a little
about other Microsoft products), were said to be written in 30 and 20 minutes
each. That's fast, of course, but the programs themselves, were pig slow.


>Angus Fox
>Sun Microsystems Europe Inc - Sitka
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/Bjorn.