Thats is a expression from 19th century. Today people pay much money to make holidays where the pepper grows.

Dodicat must become moderator.

Big corporations may have their reasons to still use COBOL like Rod pointed out (and if its only the lazyness to change anything or the desire to hide what they are doing from the public), but as i once knew almost everything from MS Cobol 4.0 i can say from the technical viewpoint these functions w...

@Rod Tiobe is meant as a overview for average programmers to see what most people are using. But the cracks in this forum have more than average understanding of programming. Thats why they use FreeBASIC. FB combines the flexibility of the whole wide C world with the simplicity of BASIC. And as far ...

Rod, i would believe your personal success comes from finding your profession in early age and always continuing there. For average programmers COBOL is almost useless.

I tried after a long time recently this one:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/

Works so far.

Boris the Old wrote:But what's more important is that anyone who knows COBOL can become very, very rich. :-)

Anyone who don't know COBOL can become rich, too. Ha Ha Ha...

FreeBASIC is a dialect of the language BASIC. Each dialect has its own compiler, but none of them is only a compiler. What you can see at tiobe index from 1 - 100: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ They take for big languages like C, Pascal or COBOL all dialects as one language and rate them all to...

dodicat wrote:Indeed lizard, you have a good philosophical view of humankind.

Its experience.

jj2007 wrote:"FreeBASIC has enough unique features"

The simple truth is they dont want FreeBASIC on tiobe, so for everything we say they find a answer why not. In opposit case if we want something not they find for everything an answer, why it must be there. Whole world works that way.

You know SPL? Wikipedia calls it a language, so it must be on tiobe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespea ... g_Language

Looks promising!

Thanks Joshy!

Previous version worked on Win 10, now we have it for Linux, too. Then Tiled is important:

https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/stable/

These both make a good environment for programming oldschool games with tilemaps, palettes and such.

What's wrong with floating point in FB? Could you be more specific? Carlos Was to Boris, but i want to mention this: Not only in FB. It is floating point in financial calculations, Rounding is a no-go there, because there exists only whole dollars, cents, etc. https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewto...

Today good games are almost always made by a group. In the beginning there were some single programmers like Ed Hobbs who created "The Castles of Dr. Creep":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20jf2ti9ZDE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castles_of_Dr._Creep