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Originally Posted by Actor
It would have been interesting to read the book but not at the prices that have mentioned.
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Actually it isn't interesting because he does not teach. He does not get into the structure of coding as it relates to an output.
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To me BASIC does not seem to be a very good language for handicapping programs. I'm not certain how you would read a comma delimited file in BASIC.
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BASIC has had many versions. I believe VISUAL BASIC can import and process a delimited file.
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Originally Posted by Actor
It seems to me that there would be a market for a book on how to write handicapping programs. I'm probably not the one to write it.
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I don't believe that is necessary. Decide what you want to see in an output file and then build the program to do that for you.
A co horse player friend of mine made us a horse racing program using Dbase3, a computer program from the 90's he majored in. It has many files and pages of code. Comparing that to the Author of the book you reference whose code is less than 1 page and you should understand that that book is a waste of your time and money. My program imports Bris files, processes them and outputs several factors I want to see including concepts from various Authors such as Scott form factors.
I've since moved on to using Excel (2016). I write my own Macros for the outputs I want to see and use Excel as a Database for results.
