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Kent,

Thanks for helping out the ScriptBasic project and your feedback is much appreciated. I would venture to say there is still more fun still to come as this project materializes. You're a OxygenBasic fan and now a SB user. You may want to try creating one of your own extension modules with O2 for SB. I hope to get a fixed (sub/function looping issue) Android version soon.

John

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--- Quote ---If you’re a challenger to the Android-Apple tag team these IDC standings are simply depressing.

Windows Mobile/Windows Phone has yet to make significant inroads in the worldwide smartphone market, but 2012 should be considered a ramp-up year for Nokia and Microsoft to boost volumes. Until Nokia speeds the cadence of its smartphone releases or more vendors launch their own Windows Phone-powered smartphones, IDC anticipates slow growth for the operating system.

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With Android owning more then half the market, scripting phones/tablets (local and remote) may make ScriptBasic more attractive.

Even on my old Acer Aspire 5000, ScriptBasic loads, initializes and process the PRINT script in .006 seconds.


--- Code: ---PRINT

--- End code ---

jrs@laptop:~/sb/test$ time scriba prtpgm.sb


real   0m0.006s
user   0m0.004s
sys   0m0.000s
jrs@laptop:~/sb/test$

About the same time as it takes light to travel one mile in a vacuum.

kryton9:
John, yes the numbers are interesting. It will be interesting to see how Windows 8 progresses and effects things in the next 2 years.

Here is something that surprises me, that is C ranking #1 for a very long time, except for a short while.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
You have to scroll down to the "Very Long Term History" section on the page. Basically #1 since 1987. That just amazes me.

Another language that surprises me is Perl. It has been around in the top languages forever and I think has the most libraries of any language out there.
I never learned it or played with it, but the syntax is not bad looking from the example code I have seen.

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When Peter Verhas was developing ScriptBasic, (late 90s) he was using C and Perl at the time. Python hadn't made it's mark yet but if you look closely at the SB code, it will be sprinkled with both Perl and Python concepts complementing the traditional BASIC syntax.

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Robbie Matthews that manages the Google Groups Android scripting list has a book out that might interest Android tablet developers.


--- Quote ---Robbie Matthews gives a full, no-holds barred introduction to Android programming for tablets. No previous experience required!
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