Me, too! I agree with Andy and Doug - BASIC (read FB) was (is) especially useful to professionals and scientists who are not full-time programmers. I would be more than willing to pay RB-like subscription fees for a resurrected FB. > From: Douglas Stemen <dstemen@...> > Reply-To: <futurebasic@...> > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:27:56 -0400 > To: <futurebasic@...> > Subject: Re: [FB] [x-fb][Poll Question > > I agree. > > In my humble opinion the Mac programming environment is getting more > complicated than it needs to be. I always appreciated Staz's strong efforts to > keep FutureBasic simple so that people who were not full time programmers > could write useful software (which is more powerful and flexible than > databases) which would help them be more productive in their jobs and hobbies. > The Basic language with FB's extensions a great environment. I suspect that > the Windows world has a plethora of good procedural and object oriented Basic > development environments. It seems to me that someone/group could make money > continuing FB as an easy to use programming alternative to C. > > Doug Stemen > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:56 PM, andy@... wrote: > >> >> That's a great rallying call, Robert. >> >> I want a Rapid Application Development environment - Objective C isn't it. >> I want a BASIC - preferably FutureBASIC >> >> Andy >> >>> 'No' here. >>> >>> I don't wanna, I don't wanna, I don't wanna. >>> >>> Steve is going 1984 on all of us, and I will not support that >>> increasingly greedy and autocratic poophead voluntarily. Bleh I say, >>> bleh. They want $99 just to read their guidelines. unreal. >>> >>> If the poop decides to put out a mini-desktop and restore the >>> Shopping Cart to iTunes, and make an iCocoaBASIC then I'l reconsider >>> my ever declining opinion of him. >>> >>> No. Just say no to XCode. Say Yes to team making us able to use cocoa >>> from a more friendly environs, with a simple to use approach. : ) >>> FBToC(ocoa) >>> >>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Brian S wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Brian S wrote: >>>> >>>>> Poll Question: >>>>> >>>>> Are you planning a project ( or have one in progress ) to convert >>>>> your FB application(s) to Xcode? >>>> >>>> >>>> The poll is still open for those who haven¹t responded. The results >>>> so far with one ³maybe² are shown below. >>>> Thanks again for your input to your FB. >>>> >>>> Brian S >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> <Screen shot 2010-10-21 at 9.10.04 AM.png> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic- >>>> unsubscribe@... >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >>> >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >