Cobra

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f**k man, i'm so tired of hearing libless, no lib, pure qb. I understand someone not wanting to use anyone elses code. But for gods sake, there are somethings you can't and shouldn't do in qb. It's code generation is to clumsy and too much crap. And some things you simple can't do in it. You don't want to use anyones code, that's perfectly fine.

But for f**k sake, do it in C or Assembly. Or even pascal if you like. But do not do lame things as storing the binary code in strings and calling it with call absolute. Or using poke and peek when it's clearly not enough. Why are you limiting yourself? Is it anyless of value or anyless your code if some parts are written in C or asm ?

Pot this is kettle, kettle meet pot.

One could easily say that writting a blitter for a 486 without a modern graphics card in assembly code, when modern cards have builtin blitters and DirectX/OpenGL provide API functions that do the job perfectly fine. Perhaps your reasons for doing this are for the fun or challenge of it, not too disimilar to Megaman's reasons for coding in pureQB.

IMHO assembler is hardly worth learning these days unless you plan to do low level system or embedded programming. There are plenty of high class libraries and code already available for most functions, and many of these libraries arent even written in asembley either (For example, the standard C library is written in C in many implementations).

Quit getting arogant and nasty to people because you think you are a better programmer than they are. Everybody here is learning, some are futher ahead than others.

It will be called.... GPL (Global Programming Language)

Not to be confused with the GPL (GNU Public License) of course.

Syntax will be similar to BASIC but changeable to C by using a bunch of clever macros.

Do you mean that your language will have a preprocessor. Remember that C has very good reasons for having a preprocessor and macros, think why Java (which is based on C) doenst have one. Your language sounds interesting, but Im not sure I understand how it will be useful compared to other languages.

Megaman, sorry for continuing the off-topic trend in this thread (perhaps we need a rant forum wildcard?). Keep up the awesome work with Cobra and dont worry about the whole libs argument, code Cobra without them if you want, just dont get the mindset that libs are evil (I dont think you have though).