On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 16:55 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> I was raised on Basic, (PDP 11/70 RSTS/E, TRS-80, Vic-20, Gw-basic)
> Then did Pascal in College. Now that I don't have to spend all
> my time on the computer getting updates from microsoft, I think
> I will try my hand at a little traditional programming.
The only thing better than Basic-Plus is VAX Basic. Woo hoo!!
Since there's no VAX Basic compiler for Linux, look at Python.
It has a familiar (that's familiar, not exact) syntax, and can
be used for procedural programming and OO programming.
Here are the basic packages you'd need to install:
# apt-get install python2.3 python2.3-doc python2.3-bsddb3 \
python2.3-examples python2.3-fixedpoint python2.3-gdbm
A good tutorial and other docs will be installed :
/usr/share/doc/python2.3/html/index.html
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Ben Franklin, maybe
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