O2 thinBasic

[John Spikowski]

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[ErosOlmi]

Thanks John for letting me (and other) knows about Oxygen. I'm really happy for Charles.
He deserve a great respect for his fantastic job and his generosity in releasing all his work as source code.

On the other hand, I'm very happy with PowerBasic, its power, its stability, its development progression.
Recent PowerBasic OOP has open so many development possibilities I will take many years before exhausting them.

thinBasic will follow his road as intermediate language able to take advance of all the worlds of compiled languages.
This (of course) as far as I will be permitted to do. If not I will take my decisions.

[ErosOlmi]

I'm surprised you didn't know about www.oxygenbasic.org having worked so closely with Charles for so many years

The only thing I'm sure is that you do not know what I know or what I do not know.
For the rest ... we can discuss.

[Michael Clease]

your users would no longer have to buy a commercial Basic compiler to extend your Basic with custom modules. (once again in 32/64 bit flavors)

John

For the benefit of anyone not familiar with TB this statement is incorrect, I've(plus others) have used visual studio in its various flavours, free basic and er O2 basic.

[ErosOlmi]

I just assumed that thinBasic being written in PowerBASIC required the same for extensions.

Also this is not true.
It require any kind of Windows compiler able create DLLs and able to call functions from external DLLs
Just to list few: PowerBasic, FreeBasic, Oxygen, Visual C/C++, Delphi, FreePascal, ...

[Charles Pegge]

Hi John,

Eros has some very interesting development for thinBasic modules in the pipeline, and we do confer about the interface quite a lot. I hope creating O2 modules for thinBasic with the new OOP features will be an agreeable experience as with other languages.

Charles