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DeveloperX
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 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| BadMrBox wrote: | | Quote: | | BASIC had its purpose, however it does not have the strengths that other languages possess. |
Freebasic just called to tell me it disagrees ;). |
Freebasic is not really BASIC - it takes some of the BASIC dialect, and adds on a lot more functionality, yes.
In my statements above, I am referring to the older dialects that can be found in the DOS 5+ days.
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tcaudilllg
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Mattias Gustavsson wrote: | | tcaudilllg wrote: | I think it depends on the language and the style. BASIC is always easier to read than C, for example. "for (i=0;i<cam_wdt_bs;i++){dt_wd=dt_sr_ht%rt%as_s%fu_ck_w_t);foo()}" is not very legible.
So yeah a lot depends on the character of the coder. |
Here's the BASIC equivalent to your code:
10 FORI=0TOCAM_WDT_BSSTEP1:DT_WD=DT_SR_HTMODRTMODAS_SMODFU_CK_W_T:GOSUB1250:NEXT
And I don't think that's any easier to read than the C++ version... |
Ah ah ah...: in BASIC, spacing is forced. But good point about gosub.
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Mattias Gustavsson
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Depends. On the C64, spacing was not required.
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| Quote: | | Commodore BASIC lines did not need any spaces except where omitting one would be ambiguous, and many Commodore BASIC programs were written with no spaces, e.g., 100IFA=5THENPRINT"YES":GOTO160. Omitting spaces as such would lead to a more compact program, since the tokenizer never removes any space inserted between keywords: the presence of spaces results in extra 0x20 bytes in the tokenized program which are merely skipped during execution. |
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RampantCoyote
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Heh - that was where I mastered basic: The ol' C-64. Whitespace not only chewed up memory, it actually slowed down execution (not much, but why take the hit?)
I've done a little bit in Visual Basic since then, but otherwise haven't touched the language or its derivatives. And VB really doesn't count as BASIC, any more than Java counts as C++.
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Wow... that's amazing.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject: Greetings |
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Hello everybody I am a noob here. There are defitnetly a lot of projects going on here. I am always looking for new games and have always wanted to try to make my own with some ideas I have. I hope to gain some insight here on the procedures. Thanx
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I think it might be worth the effort to translate some of the classics to QB64, because library complexities make some of those games difficult to change.
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