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Muzzy, why does Windows rule?

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muzzy:
I suppose you have to be a windows programmer to understand the rest of the advantages, eh. The thing that shows to user is high availability of software and hardware, and that's an aggregate result of a superior platform. That monkey boy at Microsoft got it right when he said "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers" and so on. That's what keeps a platform alive, and that's what Windows attracts, and that's what keeps it on the top in software and hardware availability.

Kintaro:
Yea, talking of "lock in" and Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers. I know so many people, including myself have been brought into programming by Microsoft Basic (ye old' traditional one that ran on my old TI/99/48A back when I was 7), and the newer one QBASIC that I used up till about 13. This is great except they teach really bad habits in programming that do no justice when you learn real languages.

The whole company is cancer to creativity IMO.

mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: kintaro ---Yea, talking of "lock in" and Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers. I know so many people, including myself have been brought into programming by Microsoft Basic (ye old' traditional one that ran on my old TI/99/48A back when I was 7), and the newer one QBASIC that I used up till about 13. This is great except they teach really bad habits in programming that do no justice when you learn real languages.

The whole company is cancer to creativity IMO.
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Microsoft did not invent BASIC.  They did port it to the world's first microcomputer (the Altair).  

The TI/994a ran TI Basic, or TI Extended Basic if you bought the cartridge (IMHO a great investment).  Wow I miss that computer, even if it was horribly slow.  

History of BASIC

Aloone_Jonez:
Well kintaro I hope you won't be locked into using Qbasic for much longer as a free clone is now being developed.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/

Kintaro:

--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---Microsoft did not invent BASIC.  They did port it to the world's first microcomputer (the Altair).  

The TI/994a ran TI Basic, or TI Extended Basic if you bought the cartridge (IMHO a great investment).  Wow I miss that computer, even if it was horribly slow.  

History of BASIC
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I never said they did, and it was microsoft that invented the BASIC interpreter, but the langauge was never something of theirs. The basic interpreter is their only innovation. It is also the one that made them rich... the american dream.


--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Well kintaro I hope you won't be locked into using Qbasic for much longer as a free clone is now being developed.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/
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I was actually talking about the bad habits it teaches in programming, it makes it really difficult for some people to adapt to other languages.

PS: Learn to read.

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