Talk:Liberty BASIC

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I think it is significant to mention that Liberty Basic gets its power from the language it is written in i.e. Visual Smalltalk Enterprise VSE. Carl Gundel: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/CincomSmalltalkWiki/Carl+Gundel It is significant that Cincom the current owners of VSE have ceased support for VSE. It raises the question of the long time support for Liberty Basic. It would be a shame to lose either. --124.188.144.71 (talk) 03:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

It has been featured by McGraw Hill and Ziff Davis, and also in a tutorial series in PC Plus magazine!

Is there more precise information? (references)

McGraw Hill used Liberty BASIC to teach their introductory programming course in their NRI Schools, which was a "learn at home" course. They wrote comprehensive tutorials focusing on Liberty BASIC.

Ziff Davis hired Carl Gundel to teach Liberty BASIC in their online venue Ziff Davis Interactive, which is now called SmartPlanet. Thousands of people took this online course.

[edit] Oops. I guess I was wrong...

I found program extensions in the program's folder, as well as a .tkn file, and a compiler run time module not named run402.exe. Sorry to whoever posted the corrections. I have reverted the page accordingly.

Rigel

[edit] Removed

I have removed this line: "It is a very good value, and any experienced programmer should obtain a copy of it as well as Liberty BASIC." - This page is NOT an advert for Liberty Basic. This line does not give any educational information about the SUBJECT of Liberty Basic, only the PRODUCT. Do not abuse Wikipedia by including bias information.

Chris G

[edit] Programming section

I think the "Programming using Liberty BASIC" section should be removed since it doesn't add anything to the article, has information that can be found better elsewhere, and probably shouldn't be in the article to begin with (this is an encyclopedia not a tutorial site). - DNewhall 14:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)