Ron DiGiovanni – Basic Programming Language Review

Understand how this works. For 2 bucks you become a captive member of the Dmitry Kovba society. The app is a service which lets you tie into Mr. Kovba's computer via the internet. When you write a program in Dartmouth Basic, you upload it into Dmity's server. Then when you want to run the program you have to go back to Kovba's computer, each and every blessed time. As a result, each simple run of a simple program is shockingly slow. In addition, if you write something brilliant and/or useful, it instantly becomes Dmitry's property. In other words, although it would be very easy to write a Dartmouth Basic app which could be completely downloaded into an iPhone or iPod, which would allow the user to operate independently and completely free of tether, this is definitely not the case here. There are other problems with Dmity's software itself. For example, if you want to write a simple program involving trignometric functions, the software does not recognize angular measurement in degrees. Everything has to be converted to radian measurement. Pretty tacky. If we all resist the temptation to waste 2 bucks, sooner or later someone will come by with a real Dartmouth Basic app. Ron DiGiovanni Easton, PA
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