ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com wrote:
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: [Ql-Users] Small Basic
To: "QL-Users list" <ql-us...@q-v-d.com>
I notice that Micro$oft have released something called "Small Basic"
(it's been around a while actually) which is a cousin to their QBasic
and the like, designed to go with the .net framework etc. But above all,
what got my attention was that it was "designed to put the fun back into
programming."
It's been designed to be a simple to use second generation BASIC and
seems to be aimed at youngsters and people who just want to write quick
applications for their own use rather than being a development system
for commercial/free aps as such. There's info about it here and a
"getting started" guide which gives an idea of what it's about.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx
Is this some kind of admission that people are wanting to go back to
simpler, easier to learn programming systems like our S*Basic for example?
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I sort of Don't think so, More I think it is a move to promote the .Net
program usage. MS lost the fight to control Java and has come up with
the .Net programming language to fill out their plan to "be all, do all"
within their auspices. MS has a multi-pronged marketing program in
place to foster the growth and usage of the .Net (crap), hoping to
supplant and replace java.
It is them just continuing the world domination plan they have been
following for a long time in the software world.
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