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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Hi All,

Quoted from the license agreement:

Serge · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 11:21 pm Post subject:

hi ff,

interesting observation...i'd want to know what they mean by competitive products with the "s" on the end...is it just VDS that is the competitive product or do they mean something else as well as or instead of...

Serge

Garrett · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:08 am Post subject:

Don't make a programming language with VDS that would compete
with VDS.

-Garrett

Serge · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:15 am Post subject:

ok, garrett...but why the "s" on the end meaning several programs?

Serge

Garrett · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:32 am Post subject:

Ummmm, don't make two programming languages in VDS that compete
with VDS? Confused

-Garrett

Serge · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:09 am Post subject:

that makes sense garrett...why didn't i think of that... Embarassed

Serge

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

What I'm asking is if I make a programming language with entirely
different syntax such as something like the following:

Skit3000 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:03 pm Post subject:

Big plans? Laughing

I think you may make something like that, but that the example Tommy once made a thing which intepreters VDS code, I believe...

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I know about that. I thought it was very interesting. You know, what if
SADE wrote VDS in VDS? Wouldn't that be cool? Like how they wrote
Delphi with Delphi?

As for my 'big plans', I don't have any yet. Wink

I was just thinking
about making some sort of programming language sometime when I
have a lot of time to spend. Smile

Garrett · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:23 pm Post subject:

Pascal in Pascal, Oberon in Oberon, Doritos in Doritos.

-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Mmmm. Doritos. Wink

I had pizza and doritos for lunch today. Laughing

vdsalchemist · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 12:32 pm Post subject:

Hummmm,
Without an assembler or linker it would be very hard to write VDS with VDS. Not impossible but we would need an assembler or linker written in VDS. I have been looking into making an assembler with VDS....

vdsalchemist · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:20 pm Post subject:

Well as far as the subject matter goes. I think that SADE forbids you to make a language that has a similiar syntax and structure as VDS with VDS?
As for making a scripting language with VDS there has been a few attempts at this. VDS macro is one of them and there was another one that I can't remember the name of right now.
Before making a language with VDS even if it's syntax is nothing like VDS, I would just send an email to SADE and ask them point blank if it would be ok and give them a few details about the language.
I think this is a good observation and an excelent point because this is important especially with the new inovations in VDS 5. Making a langauge with VDS is becoming much more of a possibility and without the need for external VDS dll's.
The Win32 API is a vast and wide mix of abilities that alot of other langauges use including VDS. I for one would not try and make a language just like VDS myself. I would make products to make VDS better and easier to use. Now that is not to say that I will never because I don't really know what I will try to do next with VDS or what someone else will discover about VDS. I have been using VDS since before SADE owned it and the things that people have managed to do with it still amazeses me.
Ok lets face it. Inorder for someone to duplicate VDS with VDS, their product would have to carry the VDS runtime DLL but to make a macro langage to be used for lets say the IDE or something like that would be pretty cool.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

It wouldn't need the runtime if SADE had the option of integrating it into
the exectuable. Very Happy

vdsalchemist · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:28 pm Post subject: