08-27-2025, 10:41 PM
I couldn't get it to code for me. Maybe it's anti-syntaxic? 
Well I'm not sure what camp Clippy would be in. I can only hope it's the one with the guy running around with that really big chain saw and a hockey mask.
My point of view is towards seeing AI for programming as a tool, at least for now. Grunt work takes time, so if it can do that part, there is still a lot of joy in running the creative end.
Still, there is, and should always be, the greater understanding which BASIC provides for the folks who use it. Back in the old days, this was a topic of division between those who wanted QB to evolve the way of RealBasic, and add OOP support, or stay as is, just add more keywords. Personally, I was in the first camp, simply because I enjoyed and wanted to support having a language that users needed to code what the wanted, rather than just drag libraries into routines.
Well this is now, but I wonder where we will be if AI eventually lives up to its hyped name in the future? Maybe coders will be more like assembly workers (no pun intended).
Pete
- I'm the smartest man in the room but I still haven't figured out how to escape from solitary confinement.
Well I'm not sure what camp Clippy would be in. I can only hope it's the one with the guy running around with that really big chain saw and a hockey mask.
My point of view is towards seeing AI for programming as a tool, at least for now. Grunt work takes time, so if it can do that part, there is still a lot of joy in running the creative end.
Still, there is, and should always be, the greater understanding which BASIC provides for the folks who use it. Back in the old days, this was a topic of division between those who wanted QB to evolve the way of RealBasic, and add OOP support, or stay as is, just add more keywords. Personally, I was in the first camp, simply because I enjoyed and wanted to support having a language that users needed to code what the wanted, rather than just drag libraries into routines.
Well this is now, but I wonder where we will be if AI eventually lives up to its hyped name in the future? Maybe coders will be more like assembly workers (no pun intended).
Pete
- I'm the smartest man in the room but I still haven't figured out how to escape from solitary confinement.