On: Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android

[donatj]

> the killer feature ... was the help and reference

So much this. The help in QBasic is how I learned to program at ten years old in a pre-internet world.

A couple years later my friend was trying to push me to learn C and I was sorely disappointed that there was no help, at all.

[thatha7777 → donatj]

I'm actively working on some kind of "live docs" feature for BabaBASIC.

Though ... I have to wonder (and I'm only half-joking) -- should it just be a ChatGPT integration that can answer questions?

[speps → thatha7777]

No, plain old docs

[thatha7777 → speps]

'twas just a joke

[stuaxo → thatha7777]

Definitely not ChatGPT, even if you put in a thing that any code it ran would be tested somehow for correctness.