On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:45 AM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alex <alxm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Marco Achury <marcoach...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió: >> >>> But is easier to learn how to write DOS programs than Windows or Linux >>> programs. >>> DOS is a great OS to introduce programming. >>> >>> A simple programming language as Qbasic or Euphoria give you near >>> total control over your hardware and OS functions. >> >> And don't forget Lua. It's very simple and quite powerful at the same >> time. An excellent language indeed. > > But it's specifically intended for embedding within other programs as > a script language. (There are an assortment of text editors (like > SciTE) that embed Lua in that fashion. You don't write stand-alone > apps in it.
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