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clipka wrote:
> I just took it as an eyample, having been *my* long-time favorite language
> (after BASIC).
Well, I guess I'll have to admit it BASIC is my favorite language.
QuickBasic was it's
highest development. Before it was abandoned and replaced by the Visual
Basics which
are different animals, although in the earlier versions you could
minimize the interface
development part and still do BASIC programming. That doesn't seem to be
the case with
the .net versions. I bought the first version years ago and then bought
a book. The recent posts
on the Microsoft-Arrgh thread reminded me of the problems with it'a
installation. Four plus
hours and the creation 50,000 or more new files.I'm not sure that I
every got to the point where
I could print "hi there". I was able to display an image and VBnet
seemed to promise good image
handling capabilities if one could only figure them out. It wouldn't
install one my new computer a
number of years ago (by that time, it was several versions old). I
downloaded the free 2008 version a
while back and it was even more obscure to me than the first version. I
did manage to print "Hi there" to
a textbox and to display an image, but I never figured out how to write
or import any code. The learning curve
for it would be so steep and long that I had rather do without or find
something else. The only working
programming tool I have at present, if we discount the Pov-Ray SDL is
VB4. Or I should say, the only one I
can use with any efficiency. I have a couple of versions of Python which
I may eventually learn to play
with and "Borland's" free C/C++ compiler that I might use some if I
could figure out how to do graphics
with it. How I do run on! :)
> Though Wikipedia states Rotring stopped shipping to the US in 2005, they're
> still active on the European market - and yes, they still do manufacture the
> "Rapidograph" series of pens:
>
> http://www.rotring.com/en/produkte/technisches_zeichnen/rapidograph.html
>
Thanks. I must use Wikipedia more.
David
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