07-06-2024, 05:31 PM
I would say BASIC had its heyday in the late 70's to early 80's because of it being the "operating system" of so many home computers at that time: Apple, Commodore, Pet, TI99/4A, TRS-80, etc..
However, BASIC is what you make of it as a programmer. I was a systems administrator for a local plastics firm from 1994 to 1998 and I used a combination of QuickBasic 4.5, VisualBasic for DOS, and VisualBasic for Windows to write custom software the company used. I was able to interface the software nicely with Novell Netware 2.11 and 3.12 as a network back end using various proprietary libraries available at the time.
My first adventures into microcontrollers was using the Basic Stamp which used a version of BASIC called pBasic.
However, BASIC is what you make of it as a programmer. I was a systems administrator for a local plastics firm from 1994 to 1998 and I used a combination of QuickBasic 4.5, VisualBasic for DOS, and VisualBasic for Windows to write custom software the company used. I was able to interface the software nicely with Novell Netware 2.11 and 3.12 as a network back end using various proprietary libraries available at the time.
My first adventures into microcontrollers was using the Basic Stamp which used a version of BASIC called pBasic.