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#21
General Discussion / Re: Microsoft to Replace All C...
Last post by Zlatko Vid - January 07, 2026, 04:02:22 PMmay be
but who will fix all that AI things
other machines ...yeah may be.
but who will fix all that AI things
other machines ...yeah may be.
#22
Contentious discussions about anything, the world, politics and health topics. / Re: AI Will End Human Jobs: Em...
Last post by Theo Gottwald - January 07, 2026, 08:38:59 AM #23
General Discussion / Re: Microsoft to Replace All C...
Last post by Theo Gottwald - January 07, 2026, 08:38:00 AMAs said. Once you do not make the code manually but have KI do that -
this will not play a role.
In the past code was made that humans can easily understand it.
This may be less important in the future.
this will not play a role.
In the past code was made that humans can easily understand it.
This may be less important in the future.
#24
General Discussion / Re: Another Potential 64bit Po...
Last post by Theo Gottwald - January 07, 2026, 08:21:01 AMOn the site they say:
PowerBASIC is the Registered Trademark of PowerBASIC Tools LLC
Who is this company?
Besides here are some other links that do not first generate C-Code:
XD Pascal: A small embeddable self-hosting Pascal compiler for Windows. Supports Go-style methods and interfaces
https://github.com/vtereshkov/xdpw
Oberon-07 compiler for x64 (Windows, Linux), x86 (Windows, Linux, KolibriOS), MSP430x{1,2}xx, STM32 Cortex-M3
https://github.com/AntKrotov/oberon-07-compiler
And most interesting, yet for fun:
The Q Programming Language
🌱 A minimal programming language and compiler (mirror).
https://github.com/akyoto/q
All of these lack modern features like a KI tht will correct and generate most of the code so the programmer can concentrate on Project development.
ALl of these projects come still from the old timess "when the user makes the code",
which is not real life in the future.
PowerBASIC is the Registered Trademark of PowerBASIC Tools LLC
Who is this company?
Besides here are some other links that do not first generate C-Code:
XD Pascal: A small embeddable self-hosting Pascal compiler for Windows. Supports Go-style methods and interfaces
https://github.com/vtereshkov/xdpw
Oberon-07 compiler for x64 (Windows, Linux), x86 (Windows, Linux, KolibriOS), MSP430x{1,2}xx, STM32 Cortex-M3
https://github.com/AntKrotov/oberon-07-compiler
And most interesting, yet for fun:
The Q Programming Language
🌱 A minimal programming language and compiler (mirror).
https://github.com/akyoto/q
All of these lack modern features like a KI tht will correct and generate most of the code so the programmer can concentrate on Project development.
ALl of these projects come still from the old timess "when the user makes the code",
which is not real life in the future.
#25
General Discussion / Re: Another Potential 64bit Po...
Last post by José Roca - January 06, 2026, 07:29:57 PMIt is an adaptation of BCX: https://bcxbasiccoders.com/smf/
What it does is to translate Basic syntax to C and then use a C compiler to compile he translated code.
What it does is to translate Basic syntax to C and then use a C compiler to compile he translated code.
#26
Contentious discussions about anything, the world, politics and health topics. / AI Will End Human Jobs: Emad M...
Last post by Charles Pegge - January 06, 2026, 07:02:47 PMPay people to be human
#27
OxygenBasic Examples / Re: Chances / Probability
Last post by Charles Pegge - January 06, 2026, 03:17:10 PMThe next challenge:
As before there are 3 red balls in a bag of 8.
What is the probability of picking 3 balls and none of them are red?
As before there are 3 red balls in a bag of 8.
What is the probability of picking 3 balls and none of them are red?
#28
General Discussion / Re: Another Potential 64bit Po...
Last post by Charles Pegge - January 06, 2026, 02:59:11 PMI built OxygenBasic from x86 machine code upward, including the linker and assembler. So I am quite interested to see how the new PowerBasics develop and what external utilities (tool-chains) they need. Freebasic for instance, depends on the GCC tool-chain which gives it a degree of platform independence, wherever GCC is used, but it's heavy baggage to include.
#29
General Discussion / Re: Another Potential 64bit Po...
Last post by Zlatko Vid - January 06, 2026, 01:34:02 PMQuoteI'm currently working on the Powerbasic compiler written in Powerbasic so its self hosted
this sounds like someone forking your o2 Charles
or he doing some dirty job with AI ..
I really don't see any advantage of using any clone of PB over o2.
Also ..as you already stated Charles..this type of programming is on the edge of extinction
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#30