[Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> At 01:03 PM 9/16/2010, you wrote:
>
>
>> Roger, I applaud your efforts and service to the CoCo community. I'm not a
>> programmer
>> so have no right to gripe, so take this little rant with a grain of salt!
>>
>> I really hate all this stuff that uses Microsoft proprietary components
>> like the
>> .NET frame work and Visual Studio. The sole purpose it to make Windows a
>> requirement.
>> That's just playing dirty in this day and age, especially since Windows is
>> the
>> dominant OS anyway... they plan on forcing it to remain so.
>
>
> Using .NET and Windows wasn't my idea so you would have to buy Windows.  I
> wish that someone could clone or emulate the .NET system on other platforms
> and we'd be done with it.  My Portal-9 and Rainbow IDE will run under Wine
> in Linux which means someone went great lengths to emulate the Windows API.
>
> One thing I've noticed is that Visual Basic .NET (not to be confused with
> some sort of BASIC interpreter) and Java are similar.  Both are object
> oriented and can be translated to each other "easily".   This might mean
> that eventually someone could take my Pheonix IDE source code in VB.NET and
> come up with a Java version.  The sad thing about VB.NET is that the name

"Easily" is right...  they are similar enough that it's doable but
different enough that it would probably be a significant amount of
work.

The Eclipse IDE is open, cross platform and designed to be extended in
just about every way.  I don't know how far you've gone with the
Phoenix project, but have you considered making a module for Eclipse
rather than a whole new IDE?  There could be many benefits, including
less work for you.

> implies that it's some sort of BASIC compiler that produces slow interpreted
> code which perhaps scares off a lot of serious coders.  I'm getting
> optimized code and it runs faster than the Rainbow IDE which is written in
> 100% assembly.  This is one of the best programming languages I've dealth
> with and couldn't be more pleased with the power.
>
> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034904.html
>
> http://www.beelucid.com/
>
>
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