BASIC

[John]

Oh wait, you probably can't see it at all! 

No guest attachments, syntax highlighting, limited editing of posts and a brawl in progress most of the time doesn't make folks want to participate in your fun challenges.

OK John for your circle drawing challenge, try this

Mark,

I think I made it clear to everyone that I'm not a hobby programmer. I still enjoy viewing your magic.

[John]

Excuse my ignorance, but what's special about Else If?

ELSE IF allows for nested IF structures. Script BASIC doesn't have a SELECT/CASE structure. ELSE IF does the same but with the added advantage of expression and not just constants for the CASE directive.

[AIR]

Quite a few modern languages allow more than just constants or numbers these days...

Personally, once I get to the point where I'm nesting IF/ElseIf, I switch to Select/Switch/etc.

Nested ElseIf's are as bad on these eyes as badly formatted brackets in C are....and just as hard to follow.

AIR.

[John]

The All BASIC forum surpassed its November 2010 max online number. Once again AIR saves the BASIC day. 

[John]

Oxygen and Script BASIC may be the only open source BASIC languages still in active development. If I'm wrong, who else?

[AIR]

BaCon.

[John]

I hope Mike is doing okay. I miss him here on All BASIC.

[AIR]

SOB open source BASIC's.

What does SOB mean?

[AlyssonR]

Well there's .....

Umm, no.

Or there's .....

Oh, that's gone, too.

Nope, I think you got it exactly.

[John]

There is one common trait between these BASIC languages, passionate developers with a desire for simplicity.

[AlyssonR]

Scriptbasic Oxygenbasic Bacon

Hard core BASIC projects. 

I would suggest that Bacon is its own reward - a sizzling and fragrant BASIC, perhaps.

[AIR]

Different tools for different jobs.

[John]

I can't see where I would use BaCon vs SB. The speed difference for tasks I would write would be undetectable. I'm too spoiled not having to declare everything before I get started with the task at hand to use anything else.

[AIR]

You have this maddening tendency to delete/modify posts.

Your original post was about using C-Basic/Jade vs Bacon.

SB has NOTHING to do with my response, which is about c/c++ macros definitions vs BaCon.

[John]

Sorry, I quoted the wrong post so I had to delete my response.