Re: Help

CBFalconer said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:
CBFalconer said:
walid_nakhoul@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi all. I have a code written in EasyLanguage. How can i translate
it to Basic? Anything or anyone outhere that can shed some light
on this?

Never heard of it. Try translation to C or Ada instead. Basic is
non-standardized,

Look up ISO/IEC 10279.

non-viable,

In its Visual Basic incarnation, it is used in production
environments all over the world.

and a niche market.

I've written BASIC programs on an IBM mainframe, an Acorn Electron,
a ZX81, a [Spectrum], an Atari 800, Atari ST, an Amiga, a PC running
MS-DOS, a PC running Windows, a Linux box, and of course on a BBC B.
It has been the stalwart of low-spec home computers since the
Altair. The Windows GUI-aware version which became Visual Basic was
a triumph of creativity and design that brought Windows programming
into the realm of the possible for many thousands of people. I
would venture to suggest that there are *millions* of people
nowadays who can write BASIC programs.

Some niche.

Are your programs portable over those machines?

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if some of them were. Nevertheless,
*none* of them were written with portability in mind, so it wouldn't
surprise me if lots of them weren't.

Are you claiming that any language in which it is possible to write
non-portable programs is non-standardised, non-viable, and a niche
market? If so, then those epithets apply to C, C++, Pascal, Java,
COBOL, Ada, ... everything, in fact.

If you are merely saying that many BASIC programs are non-portable, then
I agree, but that's not what we were talking about. I maintain that
your *original* claims about BASIC (not standardised, not viable, a
niche market) were incorrect.

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