04-12-2025, 12:15 PM
QB64 is to me like English (although I spoke a dialect of Applesoft back in the day) in that it's the only language I can be relatively fluent in. I took French in middle school and don't remember a word of it. I took a college course in Assembly and have taken some baby steps in C++ on my own. Of those two I have the greatest respect for those old timers who used Assembly, upon which all else is built.
Ultimately, I do everything in QB64 since it has yet to let me down in terms of speed or power for my purposes. I don't do fast action game programming as I do not play such things enough to concern myself. I too appreciate the ability to quickly mock up algorithms without a lot of setup overhead. The syntax changes from language to language, but the basics are the same, variables, expressions, logical operators, loops, etc.
QB64 deserves far more respect as a coding tool, IMO.
Ultimately, I do everything in QB64 since it has yet to let me down in terms of speed or power for my purposes. I don't do fast action game programming as I do not play such things enough to concern myself. I too appreciate the ability to quickly mock up algorithms without a lot of setup overhead. The syntax changes from language to language, but the basics are the same, variables, expressions, logical operators, loops, etc.
QB64 deserves far more respect as a coding tool, IMO.
DO: LOOP: DO: LOOP
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