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- From: TCM <misc1870@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> (The Cookie Monster [Glenn Fisher])
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Date: 18 Apr 96 10:27:58 +1200
- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Message-ID: <1996Apr18.102758@cantva>
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- In article <31748CEB.396@mail.ccil.net>, Pete Tyjewski <petertyj@mail.ccil.net> writes:
- >> > Yes, I agree VB is shit, but PowerBasic is quite different.
- >>
- >> Yep, If PowerBASIC could do a flat memory model (I know it's in the works), I
- >> would still be using BASIC, I think it's compareable to any 16bit C compiler.
- >
- > Power basic does do protected mode and flat model and pointers
- > and word, doubleword, byte, longint,verylongint,and pointer arithmetic
- > and huge arrays (up to memory limits)
- ^^^^
- This kind of follows from having a flat model. (yeah, I know, they had huge
- arrays before they had a flat model).
-
- > you can also peek an poke inp and out in words and double words
-
- Neat, ok, I'll rephraise that. When I decided I couldn't stand real mode
- anymore, PB didn't support protected mode (about 6-12 months ago I think). I
- asked them about it (and OOP) and they said both were in the works for later
- versions. I guess they actually meant it ;)
-
- Does PB have OOP yet?
-
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- The Cookie Monster (TCM)
- - All Gods children are lost... but only a few can program.
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