Hi, On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ralf A. Quint <[email protected]> wrote: > At 11:08 PM 7/26/2011, Rugxulo wrote: > >>Well, .BAT isn't exactly Turing complete, last I checked. > > Why would that possibly matter?
Hmmm? The whole point was about what is/was included by default, e.g. DEBUG vs. QBASIC or LINK or EXE2BIN vs. nothing. So .BAT is often called a "scripting language", but it's not even close to being useful for anything outside very simple things. I mean, I've seen some strange hacks, but .BAT is far from ideal for normal computations. >>GW-BASIC is fine if you like it. Most will complain about line >>numbers. > > What's wrong with line numbers? To me? Nothing besides a little inconvenience. To others it's a deal breaker. Look, I'm far from a BASIC guru (and I also like esolangs), so it wouldn't bother me. But I've read (over and over and over) about how people "hate BASIC" and "spaghetti code" from line numbers. Remember that QBASIC was hugely popular (and still is), and it was optional there. I'm no zealot, but the structured programming ideal had a fair point. > As I already mentioned, too many people these days don't seem to > know/remember what DOS was and how it was used for more than a > decade. And nobody really complained and the PC world still kept advancing... Some of us can't remember because we weren't there. I only first used MS-DOS 6 in 1994. (Though I had used Apple II before that with line-numbers galore!) Sorry!! Please don't take my comments as criticism, but you will indeed have to put on some asbestos if you expect people to use line-numbered BASIC. I have no qualms, it's all the same to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
