En/Je/On 2012-02-23 10:40, Stephen Usher escribió / skribis / wrote : > need for a modern equivalent to the old home computer systems and > the BASIC language which came on them.
I miss such a tool too. I agree it would be very helpful on home computing, computing learning and professional fronts. This makes me remember an article I mentioned here some time ago: http://www.osnews.com/story/23464/Why_Johnny_Can_t_Code http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2006/09/14/basic/ > To this end, I see SuperBASIC as a very good starting point, which > needs to be extended with modern data structures such as compound > variables and proper variable scoping. Right, but writing a new language is a huge task. Another approach could be to adapt an existant multiplatform BASIC such as FreeBASIC (htt://www.freebasic.net). It's a compiler, so a layer of macros and preprocessor commands could do the task to some extent. But of course a compiler would make things more complicated for the final user. Marcos -- http://programandala.net _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
