100% Qbasic compatible Linux language: KBasic

[na_th_an]

Uh? :???:

[TheBigBasicQ]

Double post?...forget it

IMO you should just upgrade the kernel if you are using the 2.4.x. Thats all thats needed for RH9.

[Sterling Christensen]

If you upgrade from 2.4 -> 2.6 all your software will still have been compiled using 2.4 headers, which will work, but it's not the same as having all packages built for 2.6

Also, I think Fedora uses NPTL. You won't be unless you upgrade to Fedora Core or Mandrake 10 or recompile your entire system and packages.

Do you really need the Fedora core? I just upgraded to the 2.6.0 kernel and its absolute ecstacy! =)

"The Fedora Core" doesn't mean "the core of Fedora" (ie the kernel it uses). No, it's the actual name of the distro. The new free version of RedHat is called "Fedora Core".

[na_th_an]

I'm not a linux phreak. I'll download "Fedora Core" (like Sterling said: name of the distro; I wrote "Downloading Fedora Core", note the caps and the lack of "the") and I don't care if the kernel is 2.4.whatever or 2.4.(whatever+2) . I just want a good linux distro which I've tried.

And I double posted 'cause I feel happy and my psy powers increase everytime I double post. I double post all the time, that's why I have almost 5,000 posts. In fact, it is just 2,500.

I tested RedHat 8, RedHat 9 and Fedora Core at work some months ago, and Fedora Core performed better. I don't know anyhting about the workabouts, I just know what I saw. So I am downloading and installing Fedora Core 1.

[Wizard Genius]

How can it be TOTALLY compatible with all those extra statements, like __CLASS__ - boy, though: I sure do wish QB had true OOP. But that would be cool... if I had Linux, and 24 euroes. I'm a 13 year old boy with hardly any money, living in america, with no Linux... no way

[Jofers]

What good is OOP in a compiler like QB? It's a functional concept for event-based applications that only took off after QB was release. QB is almost a foil to it, it feels dirty to have objects in it.

One idea that would catch my fancy is a scratchpad interpreter. Something extraordinarily lightweight, that has a very basic pseudolanguage that I can use on the fly when I'm trying to test something, what I use QB and Javascript for right now.

[na_th_an]

I think that simply adding objects to a procedural language is not a good idea. Better to redesign it from scratch. If not, you have tons of inconsistence.

BASIC was created in 1965 and really improved in the 80s. I think the language is good as it is. Add pointers and you have a great language. You just need a good compiler.

[---Turbo Fx---]

Talking about basic compilers.
I have migrated to purebasic, I think it's the best one out there.
Easy 2d 3d directx and opengl, with GUI creator
It supports pointers but no oop.
It's even easier than qb in some aspects. And the exes are realy small, its also as fast as C.
Be sure to check it out, it costs 60 Euro. The demo supports only 800 lines of code or so.
It works on windows as well as linux

I'm working on Total Destruction 32bit in it. It uses the 3d card, it looks very cool, but I don't know how to post images.

I was also wondering how the qbasic for windows projects are comming along.