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aluseus GOD
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 03:17
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BASIC stands for Beginner\\\'s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
DarkBASIC sure isn\\\'t all purpose....
just some trivia

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GatorHex
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 03:24 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2007 03:25
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That acronym was thought up in 1964 by Kemeny & Kurtz.

I'm pretty sure DBP can do anything that was "All-purpose" back when it was defined so I guess it passes

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MikeS
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 03:33
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I have a hard time thinking of anything DBP can't do anyways. Perhaps natively it can't do everything, but with .dll's, there are almost on limits.

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Fallout
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 12:09
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Clearly a case of someone calling it BASIC and coming up with the acronym before trying to figure out what it's supposed to mean.


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Dazzag
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 14:54
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So what does C stand for then? Heh, think I remember what the answer is, although my college days are very fuzzy, and in most cases do not exist at all (the being at college doing lectures bit...)

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Junkrock
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 14:56
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Code?

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Dazzag
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 15:28
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Nope.

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 15:52
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Quote: "The initial development of C occurred at AT&T Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973; according to Ritchie, the most creative period occurred in 1972. It was named "C" because many of its features were derived from an earlier language called "B", which according to Ken Thompson was a stripped down version of the BCPL programming language."


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Dazzag
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 16:17
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Spoilsport. Good to know not all of my brain cells were destroyed in college then

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 17:27
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and then there's "D"

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 17:30 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2007 17:31
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And then there's DD. Mmmmmmmmmm.


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spooky
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 18:13
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Can I have a 'P' please Bob?

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bitJericho
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 18:43
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I'm sorry there are no "P"s.

Back to the topic.. what does db not do? You use the windows widgets plugins and you can make any windows app

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Manic
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 20:43
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it can't make dlls for one thing.

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Aaron Miller
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No, there really is a "D" language. Check it out: D Programming Language
And the compiler for it: D Compiler.


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 22:14
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It seems that it has taken quite a while for D to pick up any momentum at the moment though.

Quote: "it can't make dlls for one thing."

You could make a convertor that outputs your source back into C and then use a C compiler to make one. Bottomline though, DBP is for games and 3D.



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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 24th Aug 2007 09:25
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Hey Mike, you work with Lee on DBP, right? How's DBP X10 coming?

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Posted: 24th Aug 2007 11:13
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I think you got the wrong Mike!


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Posted: 24th Aug 2007 13:44 Edited at: 24th Aug 2007 13:45
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Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

This means that it is a language for beginners that can be made to fit anything and uses symbols (words) to create instructions. It doesn't mean that BASIC can do everything it just means that it's "system" can be made to do anything, what ever you fit it on top of. DBP uses BASIC as their language to take instructions for their users.

C++ means to increase variable C by 1 (INC C in BASIC terms)

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Posted: 24th Aug 2007 19:17 Edited at: 24th Aug 2007 19:19
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Quote: "it can't make dlls for one thing."


You could make a dll that compiles and makes dlls( in fact most dlls are made from compilers that run on dlls) . Really, a dll could do anything and dark BASIC can use dlls, so in a way dark BASIC can do everything.



Quote: "You could make a convertor that outputs your source back into C and then use a C compiler to make one. Bottomline though, DBP is for games and 3D."


basically what you said but skipping the C part

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