[TowerTalk] DOS?

[marsh at ka5m.net]

Thanks for your comments but way over my non-Windows-programmer head. Way
back in the (DOS) day I programmed some in BASIC, QuickBASIC, C, and
Assembly. I was fascinated with asynchronous serial communications. These
days I'd rather tune and listen on the CW ham bands, or build / fly
control-line model airplanes.

I'll make sure James sees your comments.

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
jimlux
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:28 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] DOS?

On 10/11/16 1:16 PM, marsh at ka5m.net wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> My son James, KB5JXV, has 2 Masters Degrees in Computer Science, 
> worked for several years as a programmer in Silicon Valley, and is 
> currently teaching programming at 2 different colleges. He might be 
> interested in taking a look at what you have. I assume the source code 
> is in BASIC,  QuickBASIC, or something like that? He programs these 
> days in C++ or C# (or something like that), but the programming 
> language he would use is not important, only that the app run under
Windows 10.
>

well, one might hope that it would run under *any* version of windows, and
ideally, *any* OS.

that would push towards using an interpreted as opposed to a compiled
language like java, javascript, python, etc. for which run time environments
exist for almost everything.

If you do it in javascript (which the CS majors will hate, it's a terrible
terrible language) then any web browser can run it.

It's kind of a pain, but once you've got python installed, stuff that's in
python seems to run pretty much the same in all environments.


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