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Re: [amibroker] programing in basic



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Thank you BUT--am I going to far?Do I need any of these to use AB???
 
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:28:34 -0400 "dingo" <<A 
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Just 
plain Basic was written to run in a DOS like environment. In other words you 
can't write Windows type forms. It also has not been improved in quite a long 
time.
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>RealBasic (<A 
href="">http://www.realbasic.com/) is a flavor 
develped by Real Software is a multiplatform (Mac, Windows) flavor that 
originally had no ability to build windows style forms and was (back around 
1997) used primarily for writing very fast dll's. It had the ability to 
produce compiled code while Msft's Visual Basic at that time (Version 3) was 
very slow and used only interpreted code.  I just visited their siteand 
discovered that they have added forms capability.  The fact that ItsMac 
and Windows capable is nice althought I don't have any experience with itto 
remark on its realiability, etc.
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>Visual Basic (<A 
href="">http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/) is 
the 800 lb gorilla of the Basics. Its Msft's flavor and has evolved over the 
years to be the hands down favorite of all the varieties of basic.  With 
well over 1 million copies having been sold it is considered as the 
"standard". VB (as it is commonly referred to) comes in several different 
configurations and each is targeted at a particular type of developer.  
The lower cost versions are targeted at developers of stand-alone apps while 
the higher end products are targeted towards the corporate type developerthat 
write client/server apps, web based apps, etc.  The current release 
VB.Net is a re-write of the language and represents a sea-change in the 
language.
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The 
above basic (VB) is a stand alone product. Msft decided several years agoto 
make a version of basic that they used to provide programming capability to 
its Office products (Word, Excel, etc). This version is called VBA (Visual 
Basic for Applications). VB (prior to the .Net version) and VBA are very, 
very similar and if you know one you should be able to navigate the other 
easily.
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Does 
it make a difference?  Yes. It really depends on what you would to 
accomplish as to which one you might use. Having said that it is highly 
likely that VB or VBA would be the likely choice if you want to write apps 
that run only in the Windows environment.  If you'd like to discuss 
this further lets take it off this board.

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<SPAN 
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<SPAN 
class=493320715-30092002> -----Original 
Message-----From: george massik [mailto:gmassik@xxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:29 PMTo: 
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [amibroker] programing in 
basic
I searched amazon and found 
real basic and visual basic--how are thesedifferent fron just plain 
Basic and does it make a dirfferenceThank 
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