Oh WOW

[kryton9]

Sorry I see I posted this in the general thinBasic and not the general forum area, if it can be moved, thanks.

Guys, this is incredible. The sort of stuff I always have as a dream in my head for programming. This is probably one step away from being the way you might program in a holodeck for example, if we had the capability to interact with virtual objects in a 3d world as in the holodeck, but for now you can see the engine is there for the computer's side and we just use our mouse and monitor, but this is really really cool.

Sort of ties into all of the sort of stuff I always post about in search of making this sort of stuff happen. Again, like in so many of these languages that amaze me, the messaging system is the key.

I hope Petr and I can develop something sort of like this for our gaming engine and of course thinBasic in general.

I hope you guys enjoy this lecture as much as I did and would love to hear your reactions.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5776880551404953752&q=programming&hl=en

[kryton9]

Came across this tonight. I thought Eros and Roberto might find it interesting. Maybe of interest with the other work you guys do or even developing thinBasic on it. I am just reading on it, but it sure sounds like a good mix for the future of your guys projects in thinBasic and maybe with the IT work you do.

http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/starting.aspx

[RobertoBianchi]

Hi Kryton9,

indeed F# is very intresting, I am observing it from the end of 2005 and I really don't understand why the visual studio .net not contain it.

Ciao,
Roberto

[Michael Hartlef]

If I understood a page there correctly, it ships with extensions for VS 2003 and 2005. It kind alooks funny, this
LET thingy and the DO stuff. But interesting, that is for sure.

Thank Kent for posting the infop about it.

[kryton9]

I don't know if you guys caught one of the videos, but the current version did away or it is optional the ; at end of statements.
It looks so much cleaner without it, almost basic like but with all the power of OOP.

Eros mentioned on numerous posts in replies to my language searches and his words hold true about going Microsoft. I read an interesting article at about.com on wether .net is really stolen from Borland, well I should say bought from Borland. But is seems Microsoft really has a plan for the future, .net is actually pretty cool, I can see them moving that route. The transition is tough and they make a good point that Delphi could be a nice bridging language as you can still develop RAD apps for win32, but also for .net. I guess the new IDE in Borlad will open up Visual Basic files.

As I mentioned before i am trying to find that one language, it seems it is going to be a Microsoft one, for this reason, from my readings, it seems they offer the ability to develop for mobile devices, games, and of course business apps. I am really getting excited about programming on a mobile device. My service contract is up for renewal on my cell phone, I want to get a phone with Mobile 5.0 on it. There is a really nice Motorola Q and with my deal, I should be able to get it for free for signing up for 2 more years with Verizon. The Q has mobile 5.0 on it and I am lucky to live in an area with high speed internet available to cell phones. The only thing holding me back was the c syntax, but with f#, it is nice and clean code. I don't know if you can do mobile 5 with it, but there is always c#, not as clean, but still sort of between Visual Basic and C++.

One of my friends said he got me Visual Studio for Christmas, so I was shocked. At least with that I can make dll's for thinBasic too.
So it should be an exciting January when I get to play with it. I will download f# and try it out too. I will try to make a dll for thinBasic and see how it goes.