Re: No more BASIC for MAC?

[palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)]

> I've just been told from a vendor that no version of BASIC exists for the
> PowerMac. So what are people using when they want to do some quick and
> dirty programing on a Mac these days? (Please don't tell me I have to learn
> C!! Please! Surely there is something easier.)

Use Fortran. There is a free package on the Web which works just fine!
See http://www.fortner.com/docs/product_fortran.html for a free DEMO
compiler. It does all I would want to do.

On the other hand, I'm learning C this semester by taking a computational
physics course from one of my colleagues. We have a lab full of PPCs and
Code Warrior as a compiler. I'm 61 years old, a Fortran user for more than
forty years, and I've heard that story about teaching old canines. It's
untrue. Learn C. My son has been bugging me to do so for more than ten
years. I now know that he was right.

Leigh