Adding a visual basic script into E-Prime

[David McFarlane]

Sorry, I should have been a bit more clear and emphatic.  Once again, 
although E-Prime does derive from VB, EP is an entirely different 
beast, entailing a completely different programming design structure, 
and there is absolutely no sense at all in making something in 
E-Prime unless you build it fresh from the ground up according to 
E-Prime style.  Any code you have may help somewhat in laying out the 
general logic of your task, and then you have to take it from 
there.  In any case (aside from reusing well-designed routine 
libraries) you should *never* take anyone else's code wholesale (we 
had a student lose 2.5 years of dissertation research because of such 
a mistake), you should always fully understand whatever code you are 
porting to the point that you could recode it from first principles.

BTW, I took another look at that code sample, and it is clearly 
labelled as something that does not even work.  So why would you 
start from broken code in the first place?  I highly recommend that 
you  1) decide on a programming platform that suits you,  2) 
carefully think through your task design, and then  3) program that 
design in the chosen platform.  If you are not up to that then 
perhaps you should hire some professional help.

OK, I'm late getting home and tonight is Survivor night...

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 4/29/2010 06:14 PM Thursday, you wrote:
>Thank you for your reply.
>
>So would looking at VB code help at all? Would I have to program the
>problem from scratch?
>I do not know much code so would something like the Monty Hall problem
>be possible with minimal code?
>
>On Apr 29, 5:25 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> > Without going into great detail, although E-Prime does derive from
> > Visual Basic for Applications, it provides a highly customized and
> > specialized platform (otherwise there would be no point to using it
> > instead of straight VB).  IOW, it is rather more (and less) than just
> > a VB platform with an added library of routines.  So you cannot
> > simply copy & paste VB code and expect it to work.  In particular,
> > the code that you reference contains a class definition, and the
> > geniuses at PST do not allow us to define our own custom classes in
> > E-Basic <sigh>.
> >
> > <editorial>
> > BTW, I don't know why everybody calls this "script" instead of
> > "code", *especially* when referring to straight VB instead of E-Basic
> > -- I have read through several VB books, the word "script" never
> > appears there and they uniformly refer to "code" (just like at the
> > link that you posted).
> > </editorial>
> >
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
> >
> > >So part of my experiment, I want to have the Monty Hall Problem. I've
> > >found some VB scripts of the Monty Hall problem but I'm not sure how I
> > >would put them into E-Prime as an inline script.
> >
> > >Would I be able to copy and paste a script and just make some edits or
> > >would I have to start from scratch?
> >
> > >Thank you for any help or advice!
> >
> > >ps something like the script from this link
> >
> > >http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=609731

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