TIB: Re: Re: Announcement!

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Subject: TIB: Re: Re: Announcement!
From: "D.P. Stanford" <TheSlayers@chinalook.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:27:23 -0500
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I have to say, I agree with Philipp, I programed in QBasic for about 3
years, and found there is very little you can do with that programming
language.  It's easy to do, but it can't do much for you.  If you want to
get anywhere in computers, learn something good, as he said like Java, and
work your way to C.  QBasic is a language that's fun to mess around with,
but the most advanced thing I ever heard coming out of it was a program that
could draw 3D verticies in space.

- Doug
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-----Original Message-----
From: The Kellers <sandia@rocler.qc.ca>
To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 10:35 PM
Subject: TIB: Re: Announcement!


>
>My cheap two cents:
>
>Qbasic came free with DOS and can be found on the windows 95 CD-ROM.
>It's pretty much obsolete if you actually wanna program anything
>usefull. Of course you could have fun programming useless programs but
>you're time would be better spent learning a "real" programming
>language.
>
>If you want an easy programming language for the PC, try Visual Basic.
>
>Java is also pretty simple and I recommend it highly to anyone who
>want's to learn to program on computers. The are plenty of tutorials
>available, notably at http://java.sun.com where you can also download
>everything you need to program in Java, not just applets either, as
>most might think. You can also use it to program applications with
>nice GUIs. A very good language to introduce yourself to Object
>oriented programming and, a major plus is that your programs will run
>on almost any platform: windows, mac, linux, whatever.
>
>Face it, TIBASIC is a lousy programming language but what do you
>expect from a calculator? QBasic is almost as lousy, but that's on a
>computer... get the idea?
>
>Philipp Keller
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike <cassetti@yahoo.com>
>To: <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
>Sent: January 2, 1999 22:13
>Subject: TIB: Announcement!
>
>
>>
>>Hi,
>>i just wanted to tell all of you Ti-Basic programmers about my
>>discovery: The language we use, is also used on the computer
>>programming system called Q-Basic, this is a free programmer system
>>that is very good ( but, like with all free things, there is a
>>downside, it is MS-DOS baised, not windows ) i have tested this
>>language, and it is VERY VERY similar to the Ti-85/86 language i do
>>not know about any other calcs, because i do not know the language of
>>the 83 or 82 or 89 or 92, but please take a look at q-basic,i is very
>>similar, and many people are forgetting about this programming
>>language, and soon, it will be totally forgotten, look on the web for
>>these sites, i think that they have qbasic available for download (
>>40K ) it is very small. Give it a try.
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>