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    BCX Basic?

    One of the best basic programming
    languages ever! (besides PureBasic)

    BCX (Basic to C Translator) outputs its
    code to a C file then compiles it using
    LCC win.

    Amazing language.

    I am having trouble
    getting a Float value from a DLL.

    DIM MyVar as SINGLE

    MyVar = FSOUND_GetCPUUsage()

    all I get is -1.#IND what does this mean?
    anyone?
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    How can it be one of the best? How does it handle OOP, or MultiThreading? The fact that it converts it to C doesn't make it that powerfull...

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    Multi threading is easy
    and OOP, (no clue what that is)

    But it's not the fact that in converts to
    C, it's that I don't know C, so it's very
    easy for me to program in basic and
    create C executables. It has a lot
    of built in functions and cool stuff.
    I took me a few weeks to get used to
    how it handled variables (becuase it's like
    C) but it's cool. I even allows Inline C
    and ASM. even allows C shortcuts like
    Var++ or ++Var or --Var or Var--
    stuff like that

    Arrays are like MyArray[10] (0 - 9)
    I'ts also allowing me to learn C.

    That's why I think i'ts so cool
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    If you wanna use it to learn C, I'd recommend you start learning Java instead, It has everything C has, and the syntax is very much alike - forget Basic, no matter what form it's in - it's just not effecient enough.

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    Oh, I've done a little bit of Java.
    I took a year of webmastering. I didn't
    learn much. I spent most of my time
    debugging, and my teacher, well, lets
    say she couldn't figure it out either.
    I'm not really a fan of C style languages.
    The language I really want to learn is
    ASM. I think this is the most powerful
    of all languages (correct me if I'm wrong)

    but there are so many different Assemblers
    I don't even know where to begin
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    Originally posted by NeptuneCentury
    Oh, I've done a little bit of Java.
    I took a year of webmastering. I didn't
    learn much. I spent most of my time
    debugging, and my teacher, well, lets
    say she couldn't figure it out either.
    I'm not really a fan of C style languages.
    The language I really want to learn is
    ASM. I think this is the most powerful
    of all languages (correct me if I'm wrong)

    but there are so many different Assemblers
    I don't even know where to begin
    Programming big applications in ASM would be very foolish, it takes forever - and a good C++ compiler can make just as fast applications, plus you have Object Oriented Programming(Inheritance, polymorphing), and actually readable code, compare to the Hex like ASM.

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    Good point, I have seen some sample
    source code for ASM and it is impossible
    for me to read.
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