Ask HN: Any interest in a modern QBasic?

Re:Ask HN: Any interest in a modern QBasic? by phren0logy on Thursday January 23, 2014 @12:14PM (#7109463)

Before you go too far, have you checked out http://racket-lang.org/ ?

Dr. Racket is pretty darn good, and racket is a reasonable language. Plus, I think someone over there is still chipping away at http://www.pyret.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Any interest in a modern QBasic? by sdegutis on Thursday January 23, 2014 @12:29PM (#7109589)

An important part of QBasic is the built-in 2D graphics library. It's a big motivating factor for him. Does Dr. Racket come with one?

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Re:Ask HN: Any interest in a modern QBasic? by rprospero on Thursday January 23, 2014 @01:03PM (#7109841)

If you look at the racket quick start guide, the third example is drawing a circle. You make a checkerboard about a page later.

It's not as advanced as something like processing, but it's far easier than doing graphics with QBasic back in the 80's.

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