I gladly paid Staz the $100+ subscription fee when he was engaged in FB development. I cannot believe there are not hundreds of people around the world that would pay $100 annually to have Mac development software like FB. Doug Stemen On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:59 PM, PZ wrote: > Me, too! I agree with Andy and Doug - BASIC (read FB) was (is) especially > useful to professionals and scientists who are not full-time programmers. I > would be more than willing to pay RB-like subscription fees for a > resurrected FB. > > >> From: Douglas Stemen <dstemen@...> >> Reply-To: <futurebasic@...> >> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:27:56 -0400 >> To: <futurebasic@...> >> Subject: Re: [FB] [x-fb][Poll Question >> >> I agree. >> >> In my humble opinion the Mac programming environment is getting more >> complicated than it needs to be. I always appreciated Staz's strong efforts to >> keep FutureBasic simple so that people who were not full time programmers >> could write useful software (which is more powerful and flexible than >> databases) which would help them be more productive in their jobs and hobbies. >> The Basic language with FB's extensions a great environment. I suspect that >> the Windows world has a plethora of good procedural and object oriented Basic >> development environments. It seems to me that someone/group could make money >> continuing FB as an easy to use programming alternative to C. >> >> Doug Stemen >> >> On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:56 PM, andy@... wrote: >> >>> >>> That's a great rallying call, Robert. >>> >>> I want a Rapid Application Development environment - Objective C isn't it. >>> I want a BASIC - preferably FutureBASIC >>> >>> Andy >>> >>>> 'No' here. >>>> >>>> I don't wanna, I don't wanna, I don't wanna. >>>> >>>> Steve is going 1984 on all of us, and I will not support that >>>> increasingly greedy and autocratic poophead voluntarily. Bleh I say, >>>> bleh. They want $99 just to read their guidelines. unreal. >>>> >>>> If the poop decides to put out a mini-desktop and restore the >>>> Shopping Cart to iTunes, and make an iCocoaBASIC then I'l reconsider >>>> my ever declining opinion of him. >>>> >>>> No. Just say no to XCode. Say Yes to team making us able to use cocoa >>>> from a more friendly environs, with a simple to use approach. : ) >>>> FBToC(ocoa) >>>> >>>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Brian S wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Brian S wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Poll Question: >>>>>> >>>>>> Are you planning a project ( or have one in progress ) to convert >>>>>> your FB application(s) to Xcode? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The poll is still open for those who haven’t responded. The results >>>>> so far with one “maybe” are shown below. >>>>> Thanks again for your input to your FB. >>>>> >>>>> Brian S >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> <Screen shot 2010-10-21 at 9.10.04 AM.png> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic- >>>>> unsubscribe@... >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >