BASIC language for AmigaOS4.. AMOS/Blitz

[ple3003]

yeah!! Amos was my second heureka after discovering AmigaBasic (which suck by the way ).
I tried programming assembler ( 100010111101101 haha) but couldn't get any serious usage of my "move a value from one adress to another" proggies".
I had many other interests than programming acctually, so C and/or other more complex programming languages would never have caught my attention. I fear that without Amos, i would never have had the pleasure of learning to program at all...

So I agree with you a 100% Bring Amos back to life!

[ple3003]

I agree with you saimo.
The simpleness of opening a screen, or getting x,y coordinates of the mouse, or reading the paralell/serialport in one command, without having to call 5 librarys and initiate bla bla bla...
(almost) everyone have to start somewhere, and in my case it was amos. It was hard enough to get into at first.
By the way, what happened to AmigaE?

[ple3003]

[ple3003]

Quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

iamaboringperson:
why is everyone so worried about basic anyway?
could another real programmer please explain the benefits?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Well, a simple to use environment for beginners, and easy to use commands- no need to include files and open libs to use them. Obviously for more experienced coders the language should provide the ability to include files etc as the programmer grows.

To begin with, C is pretty scary to get started with- so many options, just to get it to compile- I know, I've just been getting SDL working on VisualStudio6, and that's a pretty extensive IDE! A beginner would have had a hard time there! This could easily put off potential programmers, by making them give up in the early stages.

Thankyou Ants!!! Just what i have been trying to say in my recent posts in this very thread...