When BASIC was at the top, do you agree?

[TempodiBasic]

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.

WOW 3 types of BASIC interacting among them for getting industrial production control!

At that time was better MASM or TASM in professional software production?

I'm talking about lowlevel programming task to add fast features to highlevel language ... surely now you play with c/c++ to get these lowlevel features.