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- From: llaliber@cyberspc.mb.ca (Lorne Laliberte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic for Amiga - A possibility ?
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:26:55 GMT
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- On 15-Feb-96 16:19:48, Duncan Reed was so nice to say:
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- > Cory Palmer (cpalmer@parsifal.nando.net) wrote:
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- >: In article <811.6424T908T1047@puter.demon.co.uk> steve@puter.demon.co.uk
- >: (Stephen Gathercole) writes:
- >: > Hi all,
- >: >
- >: > Could there be a Visual Basic for Amiga? After seeing the PC versions of
- >: > VB and Delphi there should be. If it is not either of them two, then how
- >: > about a Visual E, using the E programming language. THis would perhaps
- >: > bring more closet programmers out, because of the easy-of-use, you have
- >: > to look at the way VB has taken off on the PC to see that.
-
- > I must admit I learning VB4.0 on Win95 at work(no flames please:))).
-
- None from here! I work as a reports specialist for AT&T in Canada and
- over 60% of my time is spent developing reporting systems in VBA
- (VisualBasic for Applications as comes with Excel 5). I've seen the VB4.0
- programming environment and (as far as the environment goes) it's very
- slick.
-
- > And
- > its not bad, if you haven`t used an object based programming language
- > it might be confusing. But I can`t see microsoft producing an amiga
- > version.
-
- The most confusing part is the Microsoft documentation & on-line help (at
- least from where I sit using VBA with Excel and Query etc). There are a lot
- of things described inanely in the on-line help, and lots of descriptions
- that are outright wrong or only right under certain conditions (no mention
- of these conditions being given).
-
- > Mind you Visual E sounds like a step in the right direction.
-
- Now THERE's a programming language! I'm learning E at home and while it
- beats VBA to a pulp I am often longing for the colour-coding and integrated
- error-checking and variable-watching of the VisualBasic environment.
-
- --
- Lorne Laliberte <-----> llaliber@cyberspc.mb.ca
- Writer <-----> Amiga User
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