-=> Quoting Jerry Mcbride to Charles Stephenson <=-

JM| CS> Think I'll sell mine too.  Could you suggest any good Qbasic
  | CS> Compilers for  OS/2?
  |
JM|As far as I canfind, there is no "qbasic" or work-a-like for os2. I do
  |believe that PDS from MicroSoft will generate os2 specific code, but how
  |well, I don't know. Also, POWERSOFT (makers of PowerBasic) have been
  |hinting of an os2 native of their product for what seems like years now
  |and... nothing!
  |
JM|I would suggest to you, what I'm doing... learning the C language...
  |there's a veritable HORDE of os2 c compilers that work beautifully "out
  |there"...

    There is a tremendous market for an OS/2 BASIC!!!  Or at least an Xbase
compiler (not a runtime like OnCmd.  VX-REXX is as close as it comes, I think.

JM| CS> ..wishing I hadn't bought it now. :-(
  |
JM|Yeah, me too. It was the worst spent $80.00 that I ever had the pleasure of
  |spending. For another $19.00 I could have purchased the Watcom C compiler
  |on CDrom, under their student program...

    Uh, Realizer is, what, 12 Meg? (I forget)  Watcom is 100 Meg.  EMX is even
12-15 meg.  Apart from the fact that C has got to be the most UNFRIENDLY
language around, and its insistent dominance of the OS/2 market preventing the
release of quite a few apps, I'm sure.  You don't just get some guy sitting
down on the odd weekend to learn C and develop the next good Comm program....
that's what things like Visual Basic are for.  That's what Realizer SHOULD'VE
been.

            Yo-Han
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