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Re: No more BASIC for MAC?

Jim: Visual Basic is very capable of doing fast repaints with their
access to the Windows API and it is not that complicated. Try it- you
might enjoy a non-DOS environment.

Dave McClure
Chemistry
Portland State University
h6dm@odin.cc.pdx.edu


On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Jim Green wrote:

At 09:32 AM 1/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
True Basic (www.truebasic.com) provides a structured, compiled basic that
is much easier to use than Pascal, Fortran, C, C++. While the new Version

But isn't the compilation to some pseudo language and not to machine
language so it is not as fast as it could be??? I am in need of a *fast*
language so that a recursive screen refresh is not jerky. Any suggestion?



Jim Green
JMGreen@sisna.com