Subject: Re: Scripting with Visual Basic Clone
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Wed Jun 28 2000 - 21:48:23 CDT
I feel exactly the same way about Baisc. If AbiWord implemented scripting
in Basic -- NOT Fortran, COBOL, or even Intercal, but BASIC, then I would
probably have to fork it. I _HOPE_ this doesn't happen. PLEASE give people
a real programming language rather than some overhyped, proprietary,
IP-issue-plauged, BASIC language!
I am a bit of a fanatic over BASIC. I hate GNOME now that they're working
on gnome-basic to be compatable with Visual Basic.
I just really hate BASIC and wouldn't want to see a good program have
anything to do with it.
Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, sam th wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Big Ed wrote:
>
> > Actually that's a pretty good idea. One of the things that is going to have
> > to happen is people are going to have to learn yet another scripting
> > language to create macros/etc., but if you can use a VBS clone, that will
> > make the transition CONSIDERABLY easier. But please remember to restrict
> > the ever-living mess out of the VB clone to avoid macro virii.
>
> I would finally like to weigh in on the VB question with the view that I
> hope never to be associated with a product involving the unmitigated
> agony that is BASIC (and esp VB). In my opinion, the only langauages that
> I have seen that are worse (for general programming) are COBOL and Fortran
> (and I don't know much about either, so they might grow on me). I agree
> with Paul that the world only needs one word processor. And I don't know
> if I could sleep at night, if I helped make the world's dominant word
> processor a vehicle for one of the world's worst programming languages.
>
> As I have said, I would prefer Scheme. Scheme is easy to learn (it has
> almost no syntax rules) and encourages good programming and is fun. I
> don't neccessarily think this means we should us Guile (which might well
> be overkill). But I imagine there will be violent opposition to any
> LISP-derivative. So I would settle for a nice, easy to learn, cleanly
> structured language such as Python. Or a complex, difficult to learn
> language such as C++. Or even Ada. But please, not BASIC.
>
> >
> > Also, I haven't taken a look at all on how Abiword displays text, but what
> > would need to take place to anti-alias the fonts? I know this is probably
> > beating a dead penguin, but I'm just curious where the anti-aliasing would
> > need to take place. (Abiword, Gnome, X, etc...)
>
> Anti-aliasing is traditionally thought of as a job for X (although it
> could be done anywhere, if we were to write it). Its lack is often
> thought to be a major weakness in X.
>
>
> sam th
> sam@uchicago.edu
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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