Dennis
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Old but still active
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Post by Dennis on Feb 26, 2022 10:05:06 GMT -5
Dan As they say in the classics; "age is but a number"... In the town I live in (Aigion, Greece), my wife and I, who are both in our 70's, are regarded as the "youngsters". 80 isregarded as sort of slightly older. Over 90 and you are regarded as elderly and not too old. Most people here live to over 90 and are still active. Probably due to the diet, relaxed lifestyle, and good *free" medical services. So, according the the standards here, you are a young adult and your dad is perhaps elderly but not old...
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Post by cwinn72 on Apr 12, 2022 15:13:10 GMT -5
Hi, I am a new member to the forum. I first discovered BASIC when I got a TRS-80 Color Computer in the mid-eighties. I did not keep it up, went off to the Navy and ended up in the DC area. I became a cartographer for the US government, and used software like ArcMap, etc. I went back for my Masters a few years ago, and took some programming classes in Python, PHP, Javascript. I was hooked, especially on Python, which I use to script routine functions in my work. Lately, I have been feeling a lot of nostalgia for BASIC, and started looking online and found things like vintage BASIC and Chipmunk BASIC. These are fun, and certainly take me back, but Liberty BASIC is awesome. I discovered Liberty BASIC through a copy of the Beginning Programming for Dummies book that I found at a secondhand shop...I never can seem to turn my nose up at a programming/computer book that I find out in the wild:)
I like writing console and GUI programs that accomplish tedious tasks...my first program with LB was to refactor a python script that generates a list of strong passwords...makes changing all of my passwords a lot easier. Right now, I am playing around with LB's GUI capabilities. I love how much fun LB is to program in. LB is superb!!
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titus
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Post by titus on Aug 1, 2022 3:49:11 GMT -5
i m not new here i was bluatigro i had problems whit changing my e-mail so i re-registed in the future i be living in a care-home and 1 of the things i have to change is my e-mail i wil get 80euro / 7days for clotes and food and stuf and my old e mail cost +-60euro / month i shal keping sending stuf programming is my hobby
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Post by Rod on Aug 1, 2022 4:56:27 GMT -5
Titus is a lot easier than Bluatigro to remember and spell. So that's good, I hope you continue to enjoy Liberty BASIC for quite some time yet.
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Post by Gordon Rahman on Aug 2, 2022 17:18:15 GMT -5
Hoi Titus, Welkom. Gordon
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Post by Gordon Rahman on Aug 2, 2022 17:22:48 GMT -5
Titus is a lot easier than Bluatigro to remember and spell. So that's good, I hope you continue to enjoy Liberty BASIC for quite some time yet. Titus can even speak Esperanto. Bluatigro means Blue-tiger in that language. I don't know Esperanto too ... so I found his name difficult too ... Gordon
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Post by davidnz on Sept 5, 2022 18:06:30 GMT -5
Hello everybody,
I'm writing from New Zealand and I purchased Liberty Basic several months ago.
I studied electronics through the later 80s and into the 90s, covering analogue and digital electronics / C / machine code/ assembler / that sort of thing.
Around that time, I was writing database and calculation software related to my amateur astronomy hobby which I'm still active in. I remember the excitement I felt back then seeing a poster on a notice board advertising Borland Pascal 3 which I went on to use quite extensively.
One of my main areas of interest with Liberty Basic is related to databases. I develop some electronic devices so I'm expecting I'll integrate Liberty Basic with that for control and data logging etc. I'm also thinking I'd quite like to eventually develop something like the old Spacies games from the 1980s.
Like many others in software development, I've used countless languages over the years. Having experienced such good development software from the days of DOS, I feel that to some extent I'm still living in the past, missing the days of programming software having simple usable built-in Help systems. In support of that, I enjoy running a modern DOS equivalent operating system as well as Windows XP to 10.
I'm enjoying the simple and usable Help system supplied with Liberty Basic and it's ability to create small executables. Given my interests, I'm especially looking forward to the release of version 5 with it's built-in support for SQLite and possibly PostgreSQL?
Okay everyone, thanks for reading if you got this far ☺️.
David
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Post by bushrat on Jun 2, 2023 1:47:52 GMT -5
Born in UK moved to Australia as adult, now retired.
Completed 5 yr. apprenticeship in UK as toolmaker. Worked on early CNC m/cs. Entered Univ. of Melbourne as adult, majored in Maths/computer science. Never really used my qualifications - didn't like the working environment associated with them, so returned to the engineering field working in quality control for a large automotive engine manufacturing plant, and training its workforce for many years about workplace organisation, Kaizen continuous improvement strategies etc. Later was one of the managers though I remained a bit hands on and ran a metrology dept. among other things programming coordinate measuring machines. That was new to them because they used prepackaged Basic 'programs' via which they manually drove the machine to take all measurements. I changed that, fully automating the process so the machine would drive itself, after a few manual inputs to establish the measurement coordinate origins. All that was due to my knowledge of coordinate geometry from my Science degree. Good fun actually.
As for programming language preferences, I'm a bottom up thinker so Fortran and Assembly language were my preferences to Pascal and C - Basic was taboo at Melb. not exactly clear why that should have been the case though the Professor of the computer Science dept. at the time used to boast in lectures he was proud of the fact he didn't know any form of Basic. Weird or what? He was an arsehole anyway and I never got on with him. Best project I ever worked on was to write an interrupt-driven Operating System for a model railway in Assembly language. He reckoned if you can do that you can do anything. One thing it did do was to demystify the workings of computers for me. I learned a lot during my time there.
I'm no genius and if I had my time all over again I'd probably devote my time to the study of natural languages and the fundamentals of language acquisition/thought. Both are still poorly understood. I remember back to earlier years when computers and robotics began to make an appearance and the future held the promise of intelligent machines - soon there would be machines that could 'think' via artificial intelligence but AI soon fell into a heap because they overlooked their lack of fundamental knowledge of what it was to think and generate language. Today I guess AI is a lot more sophisticated and are those who even claim machines are not far off having a kind of consciousness - dream on I think... The fact that a machine might pass the Turing test doesn't begin to equate to human consciousness.
Turning back to Basic, I think there's a misconception about it that it can't do things other high level languages can do - that there are perhaps problems it can't solve.
Absolute nonsense of course. You only have to refer to the Universal Turing Machine to see that all can be achieved with only a handful of very basic operations. Now it could be argued Basic is not as efficient as other languages, perhaps slower because interpreted at lower levels, probably unsuitable for Supercomputers and parallel processing but so what? it will always get the job done.
The thing I like about LB is its interface with that abomination called Windows. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with the Windows O/S. just that now it's being used as a piece of spyware masquerading as an operating system. I'm not a fan of Big Brother societies which we have now entered up to our necks. I digress...
Final comment, I like Basic because it is basic.
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