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Brent · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 798

Has anyone else noticed the severe lack of content concerning LB on the many Wikipedia language sites? As it stands now, there is only one non-English article about LB (Spanish) and it is a "stub." I think international interest in LB would pick up greatly with a presence on Wikipedia besides English.

What do you think?

Gordon · Guest

Well Brent,

Liberty BASIC is mentioned in the Dutch Wiki too.
I only couldn't mention that in the English Wiki.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Basic

I plan to change the BASIC page, so to mention the birth of language4s like LB and other Window BASIC after W95 too.

Gordon

Brent · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 798

Hello Gordon,

Thank you for reminding me about your work on WP. I think you have mentioned it before on other forums.

But I may be absolved by the fact that the articles I referenced lack a link to the Dutch site in their "in other languages" lists. I don't know how these get added; quite possibly each site must be edited. I think this needs a look-see.

Gordon · Guest

Hello Brent,

If Stephan is a member of this forum, could you please PM him with a request to help?
Stephan speaks German (English and French too) fluently.
German (or some kind of German) is spoken in Europe by more then 100 million (a 1 with 8 zero's) people.

There is an active forum in France. I guess LB will get in WE there soon, because Just BASIC is there already.

Gordon.

Brent · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 798

Gordon, Do you mean Stefan Pendl? I don't see his name in the memberlist. I'll probably PM him on Conforums.

BTW, there's also a Danish WP article for JB (http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_BASIC), but nothing for LB.

Gordon · Guest

Brent,

That's who I meant. I remember that he lives in Austria and they speak German there at least.

I changed the Dutch WE-Basic page. It mentions Liberty BASIC now.
But is this correct.

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Brent · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 798

Gordon · Guest

So, should I mention that LB was a shareware type of Visual Basic that created it own niche nowadays? The WE site says that QBASIC was bundled with MS-DOS this means it was free if you bought MS-DOS.

I think Carl now likes to promote (easy) programming in the first place.

Gordon

Brent · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 798

Calling LB a shareware version of VB would not be correct. They are very different languages. VB 1.0 for DOS added many commands to QB and removed a few. VB for Windows eliminated or substantially changed a large set of commands. And VB.NET has gone even further afield, becoming something that BASIC programmers of the 1980s would not recognize as BASIC.

Gordon · Guest

Okay, this is my lack of feeling in English.
Maybe I should say: LB is a VB look alike shareware?

I stated LB is a type of VB, but I didn't mean a shareware version of.

How should I phrase this?

Gordon.

Brent · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 798

Gordon, if it were me, I would not mention VB at all with respect to LB unless it is necessary to make a point.

andlabs · Guest

I think the reason why there is very few translated stuff on Wikipedia is because Liberty BASIC is not localized!

Proof that Carl wanted a low-cost QBASIC-like system for Windows: http://world.std.com/~carlg/lbhistory.html

lnenad · Guest

I know this topic is old but i just saw it and had the NEED FOR SPEED Very Happy

You now have a SERBIAN wikipedia entry http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_BASIC

Brent · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 798

That's good to know! I found a list of the number of articles on each language of WP and saw that sr is like #28. Maybe this fact will be a "call to action" for the other 25 above you.

lnenad · Guest

You might have noticed that the article is a stub, i wrote a bigger article but for some reason it was shortened (i never wrote a new article so probably there was some mistakes)