"1. The new power and options are amazing and due to hard work by many.

2. Please keep in mind that when choosing basic 
as a language over pascal/fortran/cobal/C,C+,C++ 
etc. etc. the basic <pun intended> reason people 
make the choice."


Dear David,

with respect to your comments I'll simply re-post 
what I've contributed more recently to this list 
when similar opinions showed up...

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"Let's face it, most of us are far from happy 
with all these changes to FB because it means the 
learning of new techniques and the adaptation and 
endless testing of existing code. Both is at 
least time-consuming.

However, we should recognize that the reason for 
this disagreeable situation isn't FutureBasic!
It is the Mac Toolbox, i.e. Apple, or generally "innovation".

(Please note that programming languages, such as 
BASIC or C, in general do not provide routines 
for a GraphicalUserInterface because it is 
OS-specific. If an 
IntegratedDeveloperEnvironment, such as 
FutureBASIC, does--to a certain extent--support a 
GUI, then it is necessarily dependent on the 
OS...)

If you want to run your Apps under the current 
OSX and perhaps even natively on an Intel-Mac, 
then you simply can't use certain old Mac Toolbox 
calls because Apple doesn't support them anymore.

Again, not FutureBasic has changed but the MacOS and the Mac-hardware."
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Best
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                 H. Glünder

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          <http://www.gluender.de>