On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Ted Spencer wrote:

> On 11 Jan, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Stu Cram wrote:
>> < snip >
>> BOTTOM LINE - K.I.S.S. and make FutureBasic 4.3 or 5.0 work AS THE 
>> MANUAL SAYS.
>>
>> My $0,02 rant; comments welcome.
>> -Stu
>
> I often despair of ever seeing a keen kid (as I was decades back) able 
> to tie into our current complexities: I can't see half of the 
> components on the circuit boards I now design (and I can't see ANY of 
> their pins), and I can't see 90% of the software necessary to do the 
> simplest of Mac tasks. One can only hope that there is enough nuclear 
> leakage about to spawn the mutants who will be able to grasp all of 
> these tiny pictures. In this, I refer not to the specialist who can, 
> in time, learn essentially everything about almost nothing; the 
> despair is for the occasional generalist who must see the whole thing. 
> These people remain important. Or so I tell myself.
> --
> Ted Spencer
> --

Maybe there's a market for FutureBasic in 'Lite' and 'Pro' versions 
(and prices) with less worry about one compiler trying to provide 
everything to all.

-Stu