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Basic and Linux
by Eric on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @22:52

To say basic is sloppy, well some are, but look @ RealBASIC. Really, take a good look at it. It is more structured then any other basic aside from ASIC (very old school, nevermind) and it is just a tip of the iceburg. A *BIG* reason Windoze beat OS/2 & Geos was that you could quickly and simply design applications with Visual Basic. OS/2 used Rexx and C/Pascal and Geos used C and an API only. Funniest thing is, NT kernel all the way until 4 had the "OS/2" string in it, and OS/2 Warp 4 was by far the most advanced O/S on the planet when it came out but it was not easy to program for, and died.

The first person who makes a viable COMPILED basic for Linux will usher in the next Operating system standard and make a ton of money. I know, I watched computers since they 8K. 8192 bytes. total. Over 65 Thousand TIMES less then what is standard today/ :)

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