Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> My take on it is that BASIC [the *original* language]

aka "Dartmouth BASIC".  Just so's ya know. :-)

> As to whether modularity is orthogonal or not... I hadn't really thought 
> about it.

It's orthogonal, but usually modular programming languages are 
structured. Structured programming is sort of like modular programming 
in the small - you know this is a while loop and you don't really need 
to look inside unless you need the details, because control flow won't 
enter or leave it.  Modular programming is sort of structured 
programming for data. :-)

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Darren New wrote:

>> (Does Pascal count as "module" too?)
> 
> No.  :-)  One of the fundamental features of modules is information 
> hiding. You can't hide the types in a Pascal program.  At least, not 
> standard pascal.

Yeah, this is the flaw. Pascal allows you to hide subroutines, but not 
data structure details. Haskell does not have this unfortunate flaw. :-)

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Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> 2) Resource manage is *incredibly* easy.  In the "Solution Explorer", 
>> simply bring up the context menu and choose "Add Existing" or "Add New", 
>> give it a name (and select the file if it aleady exists), and it's 
>> imported into the correct directory.
> 
>   Does it have any support for creating a (possibly encrypted) package
> from all the resources so that you don't have to distribute a bare version
> of your resources directory structure, but instead you can simply distribute
> this single package file with your program?

OK, more on this:
No.

:(

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Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> >> 2) Resource manage is *incredibly* easy.  In the "Solution Explorer", 
> >> simply bring up the context menu and choose "Add Existing" or "Add New", 
> >> give it a name (and select the file if it aleady exists), and it's 
> >> imported into the correct directory.
> > 
> >   Does it have any support for creating a (possibly encrypted) package
> > from all the resources so that you don't have to distribute a bare version
> > of your resources directory structure, but instead you can simply distribute
> > this single package file with your program?

> OK, more on this:
> No.

  I thought so.

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