NS Basic a good number two?

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:33 pm

Anyone tried this Basic language? I am probably going to buy a licence for it if nothing
bad turns up.

It's based on a subset of Visual Basic, and compiles .vbs files to single file exe's, and
is said to be 'Object Based' rather than 'Object Orientated'...

What they mean by that is that it doesn't support inheritance & polyporpherism, but it
supports classes, methods, properties, (de+)constructors and so on, so I figure it's a
nice modern language after all, and the company seems good too.

What do you say about this? Anyone tried it?

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:49 pm

Is NS Basic not a language for PalmOS?

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:59 pm

It is, but NS Basic DESKTOP is for the PC.

I don't know how long that flavour of it has been around, but I've checked their site from time to time,
and the way it has been updated recently is quite impressing.

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:09 pm

I have ordered the demo, will test it

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:17 pm

NS Basic a good number two?

The phrase "number two" has a slightly different meaning here in the USA. Based on our meaning, I think NS Basic is indeed a good "number two".

Tried it for Palm development and wasn't overly impressed. Perhaps thew desktop version is better, but I think there are probably better alternatives for Windows development.

srod · Post by **srod** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:37 pm

It does use a couple of runtime libraries (depending on your application) and some of the wrappers for common libraries are based on COM; e.g. SQLite. Must admit that I've kept an eye on it, but haven't really been tempted as yet.

If you want an OOP basic, have a look at HotBasic.

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:53 pm

The Installer of the Demo is bad, can't run the IDE without error. It's not a
native Compiler, only a Interpreter or Tokenizer, it's nothing for me

srod · Post by **srod** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:56 pm

Also, all windows opened are child windows of the main 'output' window and so it doesn't appear that you can 'nest' windows etc. Seems a little strange!

I'm sure it's good at what it was intended for though.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:09 am

HotBasic? Thats just horrible

srod · Post by **srod** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:22 am

Without actually buying it, I always thought it looked rather cool (no pun intended!

) It certainly seems to have quite a following.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:25 am

Really? I found the whole package, all the examples very lacking. I haven't seen a real app done with it yet!

Show me one and i'll change my mind

PB · Post by PB » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:21 am

> Is NS Basic not a language for PalmOS?

I know it's for Pocket PC for sure, as I almost bought it once.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:23 am

PB wrote: I know it's for Pocket PC for sure, as I almost bought it once.

Its for WinCE, palm os, desktop computers and newton

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:32 pm

Oops, I must admit you all gave someething to think about here. I was about to register, but I think I'll download
the demo and check it out again before I make a decicion.

Btw, there's a good listing of basic compilers here: http://basic.mindteq.com/ with a short review of all of them.

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:27 pm

NSBasic uses the msscript to do the tasks it describes that can do.

Its exactly as if you use msscript from PB.

Its like running vbs script.