Skunk, I'm sorry that you're having such troubles with BlitzMax. I noticed your other thread about programmers vs artists and I somewhat comiserate with you. I don't think that people saying you are whining is very compassionate and you have every right to be frustrated. Given that you spent a lot of time working with a very simlar but different product - Blitz3D - it's not really any surprise that you are having troubles transitioning. You no doubt have built up habits that are difficult to undo and part of you is probably thinking you're still programming in Blitz3D, only to find that something changes. I'm sure that can be pretty confusing.
For me, having been out of coding entirely for 4 years, and having only used Blitz Basic 2 minimally in the past (did mostly 68k coding), it hasn't been quite so difficult for me to pick it up. There are some new concepts that take a little bit of learning but it's certainly doable once you get used to it. I think you probably have to `unlearn` some of what you learned and have more patience with it. You have every right to want to give up if that's what you choose, but I don't think BlitzMax is inherantly wrong or bad, you are just having a personal problem with transitioning from what you're used to in your personal history. I think that BlitzMax overall is good.
So anyway, there you go.
For me, having been out of coding entirely for 4 years, and having only used Blitz Basic 2 minimally in the past (did mostly 68k coding), it hasn't been quite so difficult for me to pick it up. There are some new concepts that take a little bit of learning but it's certainly doable once you get used to it. I think you probably have to `unlearn` some of what you learned and have more patience with it. You have every right to want to give up if that's what you choose, but I don't think BlitzMax is inherantly wrong or bad, you are just having a personal problem with transitioning from what you're used to in your personal history. I think that BlitzMax overall is good.
So anyway, there you go.