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ErosOlmi
16-04-2009, 06:17
http://basic.mindteq.com/ has added a "Users top rated" page at:
http://basic.mindteq.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/151-users-top-rated.html
thinBasic is currently listed in 3rd position.
Thanks to all.
Eros
PS: Jobaco project seems a really good project! Mimic almost 100% VB6 but "bytecode" in Java.
ErosOlmi
08-05-2009, 19:45
http://basic.mindteq.com/
thinBasic currently classified 2nd in "Users top rated". Thanks to all who voted.
There are a lot of good programming languages out there that I feel a little embarrassed to be in 2nd position :oops:
zlatkoAB
08-05-2009, 21:42
Why?
That is true.
Thin Basic is really one of the best interpreted basic-like language in
the world.
Zlatko
Congrats Eros and contributing developers for thinBasic!
Michael Hartlef
09-05-2009, 09:55
Yes, well deserved.
Petr Schreiber
09-05-2009, 13:20
Very nice :)
Congratulations! :occasion:
I looked at the other (freeware) languages but Thinbasic is for me still the easiest to understand! And it has the best documentation.
ErosOlmi
12-05-2009, 09:14
And it has the best documentation.
Thanks for telling this.
We spent many hundred of hours writing it.
Help file is not perfect, many keywords need to be rewritten but at every new version we made changes and improve it.
ErosOlmi
05-06-2009, 01:18
thinBasic still 2nd in position
Lionheart008
05-06-2009, 08:59
great :D
and "92 basics" are listed... wow, I am still wondering where all about of the world are sooo many creative basic programming guys... 8)
I don't know either jacabo (first place!) nor purebasic (third place) closer... for me thinbasic it's simple great and amazing enough to learn... (even for a not professional programming guy like me!) and see to become better and better... the documentation and all the script examples of thinbasic have until today an excellent variety other basic programs probably can learn from "us"... (even "freebasic" hasn't so many script examples and help manual documentation so far as I know..), and where do you find "powerbasic" (I don't know it...) at the list ???
very good job, eros and all other developer here! :occasion: I like to see thinbasic it's so a popular "beat" :music:
good morning and cheerio, Lionheart
http://basic.mindteq.com/ has added a "Users top rated" page at:
http://basic.mindteq.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/151-users-top-rated.html
thinBasic is currently listed in 3rd position.
Thanks to all.
Eros
PS: Jobaco project seems a really good project! Mimic almost 100% VB6 but "bytecode" in Java.
Hi.
My Question = "Could ThinBasic be used to write Web Applets?"
This may be a dumb question but I am only an amateur programmer, not a programming language developer, so please forgive huge gaps in my knowledge.
I love programming in Basic (ThinBasic, VB6, BBC, etc) for the usual reasons (it is close to my natural language)
I dont like C-style languages, for the usual reasons (too cryptic for my brain to read easilly).
I would like to write simple applets for users to interact with over the web (e.g. simple buttons, data entry fields, vector graphics)
Standard way to write web applets seems to be Java. Java is too much like C for me. I dont like Java.
OPTION 1
So maybe I could find a Basic which will let me produce web applets?
I guess that ThinBasic will not (in short-term) offer an option to compile into java bytecode.
Jabaco seems interesting as it produces java bytecode.
This can be run in web environment in html pages (on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android etc).
But development of Jabaco seems to have stalled so it may be too risky.
I dont see any other Basics which will compile into Java Bytecode.
OPTION 2
I wonder whether it would be feasible to write a converter to convert simple pieces of ThinBasic source code into Java source code.
And then I could compile the Java source code into Java bytecode (using the free Java SDK compiler in the standard way).
I would be interested to hear anyone's opinions on this.
ErosOlmi
11-05-2013, 11:51
No I'm sorry, thinBasic is a Windows desktop programming language only.
I too followed for a bit Jobaco but, as you have seen, it seems not having a future.
I think that the best way to go on the web is to learn the tools that are governing the web that are: java, JavaScript, php, .Net
Learning other tolls that "translate" into the main one will sooner or later bring you into problems.
Ciao
Eros
If you're looking for a BASIC language that will let you create Java Applets then you should see NaaLaa (http://www.naalaa.com/).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmZCEgW5Wdc
Many thanks for your comments Eros.
No I'm sorry, thinBasic is a Windows desktop programming language only.
Yes I sort of guessed that TB wasnt going down that street.
I too followed for a bit Jobaco but, as you have seen, it seems not having a future.
Yup.
I think that the best way to go on the web is to learn the tools that are governing the web that are: java, JavaScript, php, .Net
Learning other tolls that "translate" into the main one will sooner or later bring you into problems.
I have been looking at these but to me they are all too much like C, too far from English for my brain to handle with ease.
Cheers,
Steve.
If you're looking for a BASIC language that will let you create Java Applets then you should see NaaLaa (http://www.naalaa.com/).
Thanks Matthew.
NaaLaa looks very interesting, I havent seen it before.
I am having problems with installing NaaLaa so I havent been able to check it in detail yet.
I have just looked at youtube, websites and forums.
It might provide some of what I am looking for.
Hi again,
Had an interesting time looking at NaaLaa (and briefly at EGSL).
Looks excellent for writing retro-style games for windows PC and nice helpful forum.
But NaaLaa current direction is moving away from browser-based apps.
Quite a bit of java setting up also required which (for me) was not easy or successful.
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Have spent a lot of time looking at html5 and javascript.
Am very impressed with what can be done nowadays.
But with my Basic/Fortran brain some of the JS syntax is too weird to remember
e.g. functions which call themselves!!!???:confused:
But it is fairly easy to find some interesting html/js scripts and then hack them about.
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But ideally I would be to program in some special kind of Basic,
then press a button to invoke a Translator,
and have a working html/js script pop out the end,
as an html page with embedded JS script (or external JS script files).
which can run an interactive animation/simulation/game.
There are a quite a few products out there which do something like that,
programming in basic and outputting something that runs in a browser
but those I have seen are inadequate for some reason:-
* outputting code which I cannot read or understand
* limited command set
* only runs in its own window
* costs $$
* slow
* dependent on uncertain future support
e.g. NS Basic. Quite Basic, NaaLaa, JS Basic
If anyone knows of anything else I'd be glad to hear of it.
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In the meantime I am thinking about what it would take to put together a new "framework" of editor & translator.
The goal = allowing user to code in a new simple basic-like language "BROWSIK"
and then press a button to translate and output a ready-for-action HTML page with embedded javascript to produce simple, interactive 3D animations.
I have some experience of writing parser applications.
Also have advantage that in early days I can be very strict with rules of BROWSIK to make the task of the Translator easy.
I would just cherry pick certain elements html and JS that are essential or important to the goal.
In first place could just use MS Notepad as editor in Windows.
But maybe I could configure a language-sensitive editor? I dont know much about these yet.
The first generation PC-based translator could be implemented in anything, e.g. thinBasic, VB6, ScriptBasic, Oxygen, man_with_rulebook
A much-later goal would be to have BROWSIK editor, translator and output running in any browser.
Is this madness?
Has this already been done elsewhere?
Any comments or suggestions gratefully received.
cheers SteveOW.