Amiga Basic

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All you Basic fans might like RealBasic. It has a beautiful IDE which IMO rivals all of the pro development environments (very similar to the one in Delphi 7 before they changed it), the code completion works properly, it has a powerful class system with many useful classes built in, and despite all those features it is still really easy to and the code is nice and readable.

Also, it can cross-compile for Windows, OS X and Linux.

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moto

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I registered the standard version. Can't remember what the difference is now, but I haven't come across anything I can't do in the standard version!

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moto

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bloodline wrote:
Is C really so hard, that you want to stick with BASIC?

Yes. C is vile. Something as simple as converting a variable from one type to another is so complicated in C that it makes me want to smash my computer up. I once spent a whole day trying to find out how to use a variable which, for some perverse reason, had to be a "const char *" (whatever that is) as an argument to a function which wanted a string variable. There was seemingly no simple way of doing it. Trying to understad the difference between the different variable types seemed to require me to read pages and pages of documentation, and not one single method I found to convert the variable worked.

So yes, C is ghastly. Basic any day please.

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moto

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Tried casting, but can't remember whether it worked. As for the string object, it wouldn't let me turn anything in to a string or a string in to anything else. I gave up after several days of frustration and did the same thing in basic in about 10 minutes.

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moto

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bloodline wrote:
char* just means that the function wants a pointer to the string rather than passing the whole string (which would be slow)... You proabably should have  referenced the string :-)

I really have no idea what any of that means... I'll just stick to basic ;-) I like programming because I enjoy thinking about the procedure and logic of how the application should work. What I don't like is the intricacies of the language getting in the way.

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moto

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I used to use Pascal in Delphi 7 and I liked it. It's very readable and has nice functions for variable manipulation. There is a Pascal compiler in Aminet but I have never used it.

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moto