EBasic questions

[Brandlingill]

Paul.

I'd very much like to learn more about EBasic so could I ask you a few questions?

1. Are Aurora and EBasic going to developed as totally different languages or will there be a relationship between them?
2. Will EBasic be a second language as far as your development plans are concerned or will it have equal priority with Aurora?
3. Besides EBasic not being OOP what are the main differences between EBasic and Aurora?
4. Will EBasic (eventually) be able to do anything that Aurora can?
5. Will there be a Linux version?

Thanks.

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

Wow.  That is a lot of questions.

#1.  Yes they are totally different languages.  Although you can see my style and syntax preference in both of them, just as you could with my other languages.

#2.  Aurora is progressing as planned.  No changes there.  After much poking and proding by previous users I have recognized that there is a place for both OOP style programming and linear style.  Many users were disappointed that Aurora was primarily an object based langauge so now they have a place to go and another language to love.

#3.  Tough question.  As many differences as there are between say BASIC and C++.

#4.  Aurora, being class based, will always handle things like COM easier.  I can do anything in either language I suppose, it depends on the needs and wants of the user.

#5.  With hope there will be. 

Paul.

[Brandlingill]

Thanks Paul. That's very helpful.

Just one more thing - since EBasic and IBasic are similar (judging from other comments made on the forum) I went to the pyxia forum to look for IBasic documentation but it was not open. is there any IBasic documentation still available? Thanks.

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

Someone here might have it.  pyxia has been dead for a while now. 

[GWS]

Hi Brandlingill,

Emergence has a pretty good help system built in covering the IDE, language, 2D and Database usage ..ÂÃ, 

Early days for user guides though - and unfortunately the Pyxia library is not now accessible.

best wishes,

Graham

[LarryMc]

Brandlingill,
I believe the EBasic help files and this forum will cover all your needs, one way or another.

[Brandlingill]

Thanks guys.

[mrainey]

I ran a good-sized IBPro source file (500K, lots of controls, ddoc printing library) through Emergence - compiled and ran with no changes at all.

Wow.

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

I tried to keep it 100% forward syntax compatible.  There are some things you can do in Emergence that won't fly in IBasic Pro.  And those backwards differences will increase in the next update.