Stuart Sanders
stuart at pacific.net.hk
Fri Feb 21 05:21:00 CST 2003
I just started with PowerBasic last week, and while it has a steep curve to get used to the more direct way it does things, it is nice being able to build smallish apps that compile under 100K. Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of > Stuart McLachlan > Sent: Friday, 21 February, 2003 12:25 PM > To: John W. Colby; accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual studio.net > > > On 20 Feb 2003 at 22:28, John W. Colby wrote: > > > Check this out. I installed visual studio.net. > > > > 33,077 files, and 2.88 gb. > > > > Whatever happened to turbo pascal and the 12mb install? > > > > It "evolved" into PowerBasic and it's now a 15MB install. :-) > > 1984 Borland released it's first version of Turbo Pascal > 1987 Borland released it's first version of Turbo Basic > (developed by Bob Zale) > 1990 Bob Zale bought back Turbo Basic and released as PowerBasic > > > > > -- > Stuart McLachlan > Lexacorp Ltd > Application Development, IT Consultancy > http://www.lexacorp.com.pg > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >