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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 10:15 AM EST |
But let's face it. I'm a lunatic, and get a lot of satisfaction doing things
that
are supposedly impossible without using Assembler/C or some other low
level language.
Back when I was still running DOS, and using Quick Basic 4.5, I was
working on a little project. Something that was 'impossible' according to
everyone. I hit one snag (memory issues), and called Microsoft. At one
point the Help Desk guy asked me what I was doing. I told him. Dead
silence, then he said, "That's impossible. You can't do it."
I pointed out that I'd been doing it for six months already, and the program
had been working fine up till the point where I added the next set of
features.
Good old DGroup. Once I understood it (and no, it wasn't mentioned in the
manual), everything started working like a charm.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 10:39 AM EST |
I agree with the sentiment, although I feel that Python is by
far the best choice of the three languages mentioned. I
think Python with the option of working interactively with a
command prompt is not too big a step in difficulty from BASIC
and it also has the advantage of numerous libraries that do
useful things. I'll go further, if a person cannot be more
productive with Python than they were with BASIC within a
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