Angus.Fox@UK.Sun.COM (Angus Fox) (05/30/91)
Heard that Gates & Co have found their love for basic again and are producing an SDK based on Basic. Anybody have more concrete information? Angus Fox Sun Microsystems Europe Inc - Sitka Internet:Angus.Fox@uk.Sun.com Janet:Angus.Fox@sun.co.uk AppleLink:SITKAEUROPE Phone: +44 276 51440
d89-bfr@sm.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller) (05/30/91)
Angus.Fox@UK.Sun.COM (Angus Fox) writes: >Heard that Gates & Co have found their love for basic again and are >producing an >SDK based on Basic. Wrong wrong wrong. The name is correct, but there is no connection with the BASIC programming language. >Anybody have more concrete information? It's a graphical environment for developing windows programs. I got a demo diskette from Microsoft today, but to be honest I wasn't impressed. The two programs made with the system looked neat, but they were SLOW! I don't remember exactly what the readme file said, but it was a system through which you create a "shell" for your program, and then you just enter the code for what the program will do in the specific events. The two demo programs on the diskette (an icon editor, and a program telling you a little about other Microsoft products), were said to be written in 30 and 20 minutes each. That's fast, of course, but the programs themselves, were pig slow. >Angus Fox >Sun Microsystems Europe Inc - Sitka >Internet:Angus.Fox@uk.Sun.com >Janet:Angus.Fox@sun.co.uk >AppleLink:SITKAEUROPE >Phone: +44 276 51440 _ /Bjorn.
ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (05/31/91)
In article <1742@west.West.Sun.COM> Angus.Fox@UK.Sun.COM (Angus Fox) writes: >Heard that Gates & Co have found their love for basic again and are >producing an >SDK based on Basic. > >Anybody have more concrete information? There is a review of it in this weeks PC WEEK magazine. Price: $199US There is also COBOL and FORTRAN versions in the works by Microsoft. I believe the FORTRAN version is out already, being reviews in either the same PC WEEK for in a latest issue of INFO WORLD. There also indicated that Windows 4.0 was (rumored?) to have a BASIC SDK as a standard part of the package.
Kevin_Zelhart@f24.n116.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Zelhart) (06/03/91)
What you probably *have been hearing about has been Visual Basic. The language allows you to develop the interface by picking items from a tool bar, then filling in the `guts' of the code. You worry about algorithm development for your data instead of what size your dialog box needs to be. I'm not sure on it, peformance, we expect a few copies in a couple of weeks. I'll try to post on our experiences.