Ro> MoonRock has similar syntax to BASIC but is internally more
 Ro> elegant and simple (and fast). If anyone's interested:

  Clever you...

 BL> Personally, I don't find it very annoying to have to swap
 BL> syntax every time I write in a different language. What I
 BL> *would* find annoying is having to get the case right (as well
 BL> as the spelling), and that's the way BASIC is (like the
 BL> annoying curly braces for comments in Pascal instead of
 BL> something easy).

 Ro> What are you going on about Bob! As I read the above you're
 Ro> suggesting that M$ BASIC will not accept lowercase keywords?
 Ro> Incorrect. 

  No... I meant that the VB editor puts the functions in upper case
for you. I find that very useful as a way of knowing if I spelt it
wrong.

 Ro> That's given me a great idea! I am working on the IDE for
 Ro> MoonRock. If it comes across something it doesn't understand,
 Ro> it will suggest keywords which are close to that spelling,
 Ro> using an algorithm similar to soundex. eg: "Rowan Crowe",
 Ro> "Rowen Crowe", "Rowan Crow" all produce the
same soundex code. 

  I'm not sure that would help much. Writing code, it's not the sound
(most of it doesn't even have vowels), it's transposed letters or
things like StrLng instead of StrsLong.

  My own pet idea is to take the declarations, functions and protected
words, and make them upper case (or bold, or whatever form you like)
whenever they are typed, as they are typed, something like VB does.
That way, you know what you *meant* to type, and you'll know if it was
supposed to change case. It's drive you mad if you typed "StrsLong" on
purpose, and it kept changing into "StrLng". 

  My favourite editor is VB, but Delphi's not bad.

Regards,
Bob
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