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the SQL query to the underlying database server on the network. Here's an example:

MySQL.CONNECT("MySQLCo nnection","username","password ")
Query$ = "SELECT customer_name FROM Customers"
MySQL.COMMAND(Query$ )
WHILE MySQL.Row <> 100
Result$ = MySQL.RowValue(1,1)
END WHILE
PRINT Result$
MySQL.FREEMEMORY

The code snippet above comes straight from a business application I'm porting from Visual Basic to HotBasic. Take a good hard look at the code. If that's not easy, I don't know what is!

But now don't let the simplicity fool you. This is not a toy. HotBasic is a sophisticated, full-blown, full-featured software development tool. In fact, it sports a lot of powerful features that many other compilers and languages-C++, C#, and Visual Basic included here-do not. For example, HotBasic features a unique FPU object that allows a developer to fully exploit the floating point unit of the system processor. So what, you ask? This feature alone is huge. It puts HotBasic in a class by itself, making it the ideal solution for programs that do heavy number crunching for science, graphics, artificial intelligence, and games. In other words, HotBasic is a language easy enough for a ten year old to understand but powerful enough to be used in the most demanding, complex applications imaginable.

At last, a programming language where the language doesn't get in the way! For years, those of us who got our feet wet in the world of programming by learning BASIC longed for the days of an easy-to-understand language but felt guilty because until now, easy-to-understand meant code than ran slow because it was interpreted or compiled to an intermediary bytecode. HotBasic smashes that paradigm. HotBasic compiles to straight machine code, not a bytecode! That makes it blazingly fast. In fact, the HotBasic developer has run numerous benchmark tests where a program written and compiled with C was compared to an equivalent program written and compiled with HotBasic. You may find it hard to believe, but the HotBasic programs were not only faster, they used less system resources!

Another thing I love about HotBasic is its slim, trim, efficient design. Have you installed .Net recently? No? Well, you're looking at two or three CDs and about 40 minutes of install time. HotBasic? No installation required. You download the HotBasic files from the website, you double click the IDE (again, no installation required) and you're programming. You can easily copy the folder to a thumb drive, move the folder from

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