>On the grounds of pure logic I would have to agree with you but then again by
>pure logic, BasicStamp, BasicX and PICBasic should have been scrapped as
>hopelessly obsolete years ago and yet these Embedded systems technologies
>outsell Embedded Java by many orders of magnitude and their markets continue
to
>increase in size.
This is basically because people believe that programming a computer ought to
be simple. While languages, such as basic, make it easier, they don't
necessarily provide simplicity.
>JBASIC simply acknowledges this fact, provides a way for this huge group of
>developers to get up and running on Embedded Java based systems as painlessly
>as possible and then does them a further service by providing the easiest path
>possible for them to transition to Object Oriented technologies if they are
>interested.
>JBASIC will be able to use the 'reference' data type and so it will be able to
>invoke methods on Java objects. Parts of it should look similar to Java
>Script.
I think the logical thing to provide is the translation of the JBasic source
into a single class and method of Java Language that would allow them to start
using Java immediately if they hit a brick wall. Then, you will also see
people doing speed/performance comparisons and doing other things to bait the
basic users to switch to java. But they can still make the decision to do
that when they need to...
This really gives me a creapy feeling, but I can't hardly argue with Ted's
reasoning. I just don't have to like it :-)
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gr...@cy... (Cyte Technologies Inc)
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