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The first article in the series provided some basic motivation for usage of user defined types (UDT): their ability to encapsulate multiple fields and straightforward memory consumption tracking.

The second part in the series will introduce you to dot notation, its benefits and pitfalls.
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ThinBASIC is a computer language with roots set in BASIC. The original BASIC did not ask the user to declare any type for the variables, it simply stored them as a number using 30 bits of precision.

Many of the modern computer languages (Lua, Python, Ruby...) try to mimic this design by hiding the internal variable storage details from the programmer. This approach has the clear advantage of keeping things simple. Number is a number, text is a text. Programmer focuses on the problem instead of implementation. So far so good.

The possible controversy of this approach starts to appear once you realize the program needs to run on physical device whose resources are limited. The mentioned approach of variable complexity hiding also poses two issues as well for people who would start with such a language as with their first programming language:

• the correlation between program memory usage and variables is unclear
• performance characteristics can vary surprisingly, as the language switches the backends and performs the memory reallocations

ThinBASIC takes different route.
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TBGL rendering system is internally based on the OpenGL technology, therefore it shares the state machine oriented design. This means that once you set some of the states, such as drawing color, it stays enabled until you change it to something else. While this can be advantageous in some situations, in others it can cause problem, especially when trying to write modular code.

This article describes the possible side effects of state handling and proposes new code style which should help you write modular graphic code of better quality.
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I'm happy to say that thinBasic is running just fine under recently released Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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Largo, i have done an experiment . making a bundled exe: file "ok.exe" without choosing to obfuscate the source.
now when i ...

Dear all,

I've added a new functionality to thinBasic community forum: thinBasic Applications Forum

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I'm happy to say that thinBasic 1.8.9.0 works perfectly under Windows 8 Developer Preview recently released to the public by Microsoft.
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Chiedo ospitalita' sul forum, e mi scuso per il messaggio in italiano ma il mio
inglese lascia molto a desiderare.

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