When BASIC was at the top, do you agree?

[madscijr]

Hey I'm still rooting for the last one on that list, ALGOL, which I assume stands for A LOT of GARBAGE ON LINUX.  

BASIC was high on the list back in the day because every Windows computer came with a copy of QBasic and just about every learning institution, with a  computer science program, made use of it. I actually think MS engineers had their collective hive minds blown when they started seeing programs created with it well above their expectations; so they took a shot at trying to switch coders and instructors over to .NET, which I'm pretty sure stands for NON ESSENTIAL TRASH. Even I have a .NET copy taking up a lot of room in my Recycle Bin.

Pete

- I love BASIC and the SOURCE it rode in on.

.NET was the beginning of the end for Visual Basic for Windows. Version 6 was the last version of Visual Basic that was usable. Microsoft did the world a disservice by not including a Visual Basic lite version with Windows 95 and above. But then again, you can't have well educated Windows users now can you.

I couldn't agree more. For years I wondered why they didn't include "Visual Basic Lite" (aka a standalone VBA for writing standalone programs) with every copy of Windows... Instead we got vbscript, which is at least some form of BASIC, but they've been pushing PowerHell more and more. The closest we got to vbscript with a GUI was HTAs, but they never updated the engine to work with HTML5. 

So thank the Maker for the QB64 language family!