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Quote:You mean you'd rather have the compiler accept...

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Exactly.

I'd also like to get rid of the NAME statement once and for all. I don't need it polluting the global name space anymore. It can be changed it to RENAME (since that's what it actually does), but I can live without it.

4 the record!
i am a die hard QBasic Programmer.

ive done some pascal in school and tryed C and all of the earlyer basics..

but Qbasic i find fun. and after work i just want to play with my daughter then when she is in bed, its hours of Programming,
even the stupidest program. i almost like it better than welding.

LOL if i could make as much at Qb i would like it more!

But what im getting at is, for me and maybe others,
i doent want to learn any thing new now!
i just want to do!

You're a welder? I'm a pipe fitter/welder.


Guess I should have guessed from your nick... :lol:

ya, first year welder to be exact.


Oh to be like the rig welders out in our yard right now though.
$76.50 an hour

Quote:I no longer have to use keywords that are all uppercase

just create your own subs and functions and call them in lowercase. that's what i do exactly.

sub rename (thing1$, thing2$)
name thing1$ as thing2$
end sub

sub trim (thing$)
thing$= ltrim$(rtrim$(thing$))
end sub

sub prin (thing1%,thing2%, thing3$)
locate thing1%, thing2%
print thing3$
end sub

even i prefer to call them without the 'CALL' and without '()'.

:rename thing1$, thing2$
:trim thing$: prin 22, 22, "something"

Quote:.....
But what im getting at is, for me and maybe others,
i doent want to learn any thing new now!
i just want to do!

A very important point, my friend. You said "I just want to do!" I interpret this to mean "creating". Perhaps the most important aspect of programming is precisely the creating. Not just pushing the bits and bytes around and using different languages. We computer programmers stand apart because we have the ability to create.
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ya, something from nothing!
its why i exist. to make things from crap or scrap!

LOL thats why im a welder, why i program, love wood working.

i just like making things from stuff people doent see as a viable resorce.

Quote:Ok. so we have what.. one person who still uses QB?

I use PDS 7.1 and FB. If there is something I want to do, I test it in QB if I can and use FB to make the "official" version.

I want this thread to curl up and die.

Quote:I want this thread to curl up and die.

And you can die with it .