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hitsware
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Re: A MIN and MAX operator
« Reply #6 on: May 29th, 2015, 01:46am » |
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I doubt that you would have preferred a response along the lines of "Development of BB4W has ceased, so sorry there's no chance of that functionality ever being added". Whilst true, that would have been an entirely negative and unhelpful reply.
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If that's true then from whence is version 6 coming ?
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Re: A MIN and MAX operator
« Reply #7 on: May 29th, 2015, 08:50am » |
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on May 29th, 2015, 01:46am, hitsware wrote:| If that's true then from whence is version 6 coming ? |
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Version 6.00a isn't "coming", it's here - it was released on 1st January 2015. It will be the last ever release of BBC BASIC for Windows apart from essential bug fixes, if any are discovered.
But in any case v6.00a does not represent a development of the language, only the introduction of new (and deletion of obsolete) data types. Formal development of BB4W ceased more than six years ago, with the release of v5.90a at the beginning of 2009. All subsequent releases have been maintenance releases.
The most recent occasion on which a new keyword was added to BBC BASIC for Windows was the incorporation of EXIT* in version 5.60a (May 2007). Adding a new keyword obviously compromises compatibility with existing programs (since variables starting with that keyword become invalid) so has been avoided since.
That no significant language development has taken place for a very long time can be seen by the fact that the BB4W run-time-engine, BBCWRUN.EXE, has not increased in size by even a single byte since v4.00a was released almost exactly ten years ago!
Richard.
* Even that was criticised at the time for damaging compatibility. It was suggested that re-purposing an existing keyword such as QUIT or STOP would have been better.
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Re: A MIN and MAX operator
« Reply #8 on: May 30th, 2015, 01:14am » |
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Well ................................................................
Good for Music , that's for sure ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhUBBGyVmI
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