[Coco] OS9 vs MS Win

[Robert Hermanek]

There are various basic dialects out there, I researched quite a few, 
and found PureBasic, which is a free to try, affordable to buy, basic 
compiler for Windows 32 and 64 bit, also cross platform to linux, rock 
solid with a 1,300+ pdf manual.  Very happy with it, and a "hello world" 
console .exe is about 2k and requires no support libraries -- self 
contained .exe is the result.

-RobertH

On 2/26/2014 9:37 AM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> On 27/02/2014 1:20 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
>
>> With 8 gigs of RAM in the computer, I guess no one needs to care 
>> about the
>> RAM footprint anymore.
>
> 8GB isn't a lot these days. :(
>
> And it's been more than a decade since desktop application programmers 
> gave two hoots about RAM usage. I still have to remind myself it's OK 
> to allocate variables that are more than a few bytes! Once I even 
> threw caution to the wind and malloc'd 64KB!!! ;)
>
> Regards,
>