Doesn't Seem to be Any Programing Languages for AOS4 for the Average Person

Struct
{
char *str1;
char *str2;
int value1;
int value2;
char *str3;
} my_value_type;

struct my_value_type my_values={ "one", "two", 3, 4, "five" };

printf(" string 2 = %s\n",my_values.str2);
printf(" value 1 = %d\n",my_values.value1);

If you need a table of grouped variables you can do that like this:

struct my_value_type my_values[50];

I have to apologize, but, I'm stupid. (jahc is determined to believe that about me so I'll oblige him.)

jahc wrote:

Dont twist my words. I said expecting to understand a new programming language without learning it first.. THAT is stupid.

Atheist wrote:
Hi LiveForIt,

I forgot to add about the total waste of time, perpetual semi-colon typing.

C was only brought up that I don't understand it, and PortablE for me, is 95% similar.

I've seen brain breaking conversations, on just how to set parameters to compile a program.

So why doesn't C come with an Amos like runtime library? Because most people want to program closer to the underlying system instead of having yet another layer between them and the OS/hardware.

Atheist wrote:
Hi ChrisH,

Sorry, I thought that the "include" stuff was missing, as well as the millions of semi-colons, and brackets.

In addition to that, I can't even relate to when to use the brackets and NOT to use them (at least in the "C" code I've looked at). This applies to the semi-colons even.

C code looks like someone who's lost the ability to talk.

ChrisH wrote:
@Hans Quote:

So why doesn't C come with an Amos like runtime library? Because most people want to program closer to the underlying system instead of having yet another layer between them and the OS/hardware.

That's wrong IMHO. Rather the answer is that C left it up to the user as to what abstractions (commands) they use. It could be Allegro, it could be SDL, or it could be something they wrote themselves.

MODULE '*athiest'

PROC main()
openWindow(320, 200)

Plot(159, 99, 2)

waitForUserToCloseWindow()
closeWindow()
ENDPROC

OPT MODULE, EXPORT
MODULE 'intuition/intuition'
DEF window

PROC openWindow(width, height, x=0, y=0, title=0)
window := OpenW(x, y, width, height, IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW, WFLG_CLOSEGADGET OR WFLG_ACTIVATE, IF title THEN title ELSE 'window', NIL, 1, NIL)
IF window = NIL
PrintF('ERROR -- Could not open window!\n')
Raise("WIN")
ENDIF
ENDPROC

PROC closeWindow() IS CloseW(window)

PROC waitForUserToCloseWindow()
WHILE WaitIMessage(window) <> IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW
ENDWHILE
ENDPROC

Cant a smart IDE detect OS 3 compatibility setting and switch/replace certain functions with OS 3.x ones ?

ARexx actually looks like quite a nice language, but after some time programming in it I concluded that it was not suitable for large (or even medium) sized programs - most probably because it shares too many of BASIC's flaws.

Every variable needs to be declared in C, which was not the case in BASIC, for example.
But the major confusion is clearly handling pointers.

... I can add the following examples

--- LUA ---
number = 5

Let's say I want to change the colour of one pixel, what all do I need to type in C

Quote:

ARexx actually looks like quite a nice language, but after some time programming in it I concluded that it was not suitable for large (or even medium) sized programs

AmiPodder is written in ARexx, so it is certainly capable.

Hans wrote:

Semi-colons denote the end of an actual line of code, which can be multiple lines long.

Hans wrote:
this is C:

if( x == 10)
{
drawCar();
}
else
{
drawPig();
}

if( x == 10){drawCar();
} else { drawPig();
}

I just pretty much made almost all my variables global.