Out of interest, I downloaded Small Basic and ran the descending loop. It worked fine.
Laurie
On 16 January 2016 at 11:26, AndyHC jarndice@gmail.com wrote:
The latest excellent (if daunting) offering by Verity Stob on The Register linked to i-programmer.com (well worth a look if, like me, you haven't come across it before). That in turn led me to look at ms Simple Basic - a learners' programming language. I was musing on whether ms might be persuaded to come up with 'Visual Foxcub' - but was a bit put off when I noticed on the forum that ms implementation was less than thorough:
<quote> Thiago#
This following ... code in Introducing Small Basic:
For i = 10 To 1 Step -1 TextWindow.WriteLine(i) EndFor
is not working! thanks!
Vijaye Raji#
Thanks for reporting that Thiago. That's a bug in the compiler which we'll fix for the next release.
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