Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:2508 comp.windows.ms.programmer:3143 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!arcsun.arc.ab.ca!arcsun!jbtubman From: jbtubman@beetle.arc.ab.ca (Jim Tubman) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: ap, Windows BASIC Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 17:30:03 GMT References: <1991Jun11.214541.24352@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: nobody@arc.ab.ca (Absolutely Nobody) Followup-To: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.ms.programmer Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary Alberta, Canada Lines: 40 In-Reply-To: mathew@mantis.co.uk's message of 13 Jun 91 13:31:05 GMT In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: Microsoft has now announced Visual BASIC, a mutant BASIC with Windows. This strikes me as being just what the world did NOT need. The Atari ST has a number of BASICs similar in concept to Visual BASIC, and in my experience the PD GEM programs written in BASIC are klunky, unreliable, and suffer from bizarre user-interface weirdness. Until now, PD Windows 3.0 programs have mostly been of fairly good quality. I confidently predict that Visual BASIC will change that. mathew My, I wish I could make such confident pronouncements about stuff I've never seen. Seriously though, I've seen quite a few articles about Visual BASIC in the trade press lately, all of them positive, some of then rabidly so. Most of the articles start by advising the reader to abandon any preconceptions that they have about old versions of BASIC and take the product on its own merits. Perhaps someone out there who has actually used Visual BASIC might post a mini-review to help clear things up. --Jim -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James B. Tubman Alberta Research Council Research Officer Advanced Computing & Engineering Dept. jbtubman@arcsun.arc.ab.ca 3rd Floor jbtubman@noah.arc.ab.ca 6815 - 8 Street NE Phone: (403) 297-2652 Calgary, Alberta Fax: (403) 275-3003 Canada T2E 7H7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A just machine to make big decisions, Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision." -- Donald Fagan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------