new language

[*nixgeek]

i've recently got interested in learning programming and i dled the demo of futureBASIC to learn how towrite my own code. however i am encountering some problems. whenever i write something like:

nomainwin
prompt "something"
end

it comes up with a error saying nomainwin and prompt are unreconiziable commands,same thing with notice

my second problem is it won't let me open a graphics window like:

open "my drawing area" for graphics as #graphwin

it comes up with open missing how??
if you can help me with my problems thank you very much

 

[TMTOWTDI]

Hi, well, the first thing i'll say is that don't waste your time with a language like that. Depending on what OS you are running, and i would guess it's UNIX, i'd say learn perl, because i'm a Perl junky. I can help you learn it, my AIM name is hilleyatmsu and i would be more than happy to help you out with it. I'll give you a quick example of how to get a program running:
1. open your favorite non ritch text editor (pico on the command line works)
2. now type what's called the sha-bang line:
#!/usr/bin/perl
that should always be your first line in a perl program
3. do a hello world program:
print "hello, world!\n";
4. exit the text editor, saving the program as whatever you want but with the extenstion .pl, i'll call my program hello.pl
5. change permissions to run the program:
chmod a+x hello.pl
6. last, run the program:
./hello.pl
7. conclusion: you should see "hello, world!" printed. If so, enjoy perl.
If not, message me.
Have fun!

 

[anarchie]

The shebang line should be
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
The -w flag tells perl to report errors to you instead of silently ignoring them. This helps tremendously when debugging your program, which is pretty much all the time.

Oh, and I agree. BASIC sucks. You're better off with a language which doesn't have silly rules such as "If a function doesn't return a value, we call it a method, and you can't put parentheses around its arguments!"....