> > Very professional looking, and uses VB structure. If I was to recommend > > a BASIC product (which I'm not ;) I'd go with this one.
> You're kidding right? Only partially. The IDE looks nice. I didn't really look closely at the code any of those systems produced. I only really mentioned ones that posted the sizes prominently on the page. > You might as well have recommended VB.NET for writing Kernel extensions to > WindowsXP... I don't use Windows - I don't write Kernel extensions for Windows - I don't use Basic any more (I learned how to program with GWBasic and Quick Basic - graduated top of the class in my QBasic course) - and I wouldn't touch .net with a 4096 byte keyfile. I stay well away from Microsoft, thank-e-kindly. > It has a bloated runtime, doesn't use the PalmOS UI-widget set at all, and > is *slower* than NSBasic. Again, as I currently don't have a device to play with, I didn't test out anything. It -looks- nice. If I was to write an IDE for GCC and the various other tools... hmm... just need to learn QT programming now. > Heck I think it's slower than the PalmOS itself but don't hold me to that.. > ;) Palm is suprisingly well designed. My 16mHz Visor beat down a 200mHz WinCE device, no comparison. The filesystem was better, the Palm API gives me a sweet-tooth-ache compared to my glance at WinCE 2.0... 'nuff said. > Look you're entitled to your opinions, of course, but this recommendation > is *totally* out of left field, IMHO. No doubt. As I said, I don't use Visual Basic, and I don't use these compilers/bytecode interpreters. What I want to see is a 16kb basic interpreter on the Palm... console IO suits me fine for small applications. GWBasic rocked! ;) -- Matthew (Darkstorm) Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Margin Software, NECTI. http://www.marginsoftware.com Re-inventing the wheel, every time. - The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
