QB successors

[MystikShadows]

THere's alot of good stuff in the QB IDE it'self yes, the way it finishes and corrects some of the common mistakes for one thing, how it adds all the declares needed.  Really great stuff.  I don't know if there's a successor to that kind of environment yet. 

AT that point, an IDE made to work the QB's IDE did (or vb-dos's IDE too, I think would be a good thing.  I mean whether it's a text based interface or GUI based, if it helps the language syntax complete itself like the QB ide's did, that's good no matter how different a language might be. ;-).  Ass far as language goes, I would dare to say that FreeBasic (with the -lang qb option) and Power Basic (console compiler) would be better qb like languages than VB itself. as far as syntax goes, but they're there not 100% perfect (they can't be because of too much 16bit based dependencies of QB), just closer to QB than VB.

Now, a QB or VB-DOS like IDE for FB that works with FB  like QB and VB-DOS IDE's work with their language respective languages, I think, would be a great help and a great boost.  And could probably even compensate for some of the discrepencies between the languages.  Because QB is not"just"  about the language (sure it's most important but not the only reason people chose the language), it's about the environment too and how both of them help you make a program. 

IF it was just about the language,  PowerBasic offered more data types, pointers, inline assembly, and many other features that would have made it more popular than QB as far as the language goes (back in the DOS versions of PB). But the PB IDE just doesn't do what QB's IDE does with the language.  And that cost it it's popularity.

But PB is a compiled language, not pseudo compiled / interpreted like QB's language is, so it wasn't that obvious to make as good an IDE as QB.  Same thing for freebasic.  You'd almost have ot write a freebasic interpreter and that interpreter would have to follow FB's syntax closely on every release of Freebasic.  So to make that interpreter, might be a good idea to wait until the language is stable enough  (as in doesn't get changed anymore from a language perspective) then it might be possible to make an IDE that can work with the language atleast some.