Scheme - Re: Seeking help for learning system for absolute beginners

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Re: Seeking help for learning system for absolute beginners

winston19842005

2008-01-28, 9:00 am

On 1/28/08 8:06 AM, in article
913af600-fd49-40e7-a3c0-3e5b02b5c01f@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "Maciej
Katafiasz" <mathrick@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 Jan., 02:18, pg <pen...@catholic.org> wrote:
>
> It basically comes on free-to-use terms with every Windows. However,
> I'd strongly advise against using VB, it's been created as a quickie
> glue language and as such has absolutely no interest in encouraging
> good style or practices, or being good for kids. What Dijkstra said
> about BASIC holds true for Visual Basic as well.

Wow! News to me! Where is VB on my Windows CD? Or is it just a license?
What are you smoking? I need to try some of that!

Qbasic came with Windows at one time, and you can still download a package
from Microsoft that contains it (OLDDOS.EXE IIRC).

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