09-03-2022, 02:05 AM
I know quite a few other languages, some well, others I would need a refresher on (like Assembler, yikes) but I like programming in BASIC (QB64 to be exact) because it's fun. I actually like creating everything from scratch and maintaining my own libraries of utilities. QB64 is nothing like the BASIC of the 80's because of the power and new features, but it can be if you want, and that's amazing too.
BASIC was designed to be a tool to let people enter programming quickly. The same for PASCAL. It's a shame languages like these aren't revered more. BASIC has been around now since 1965 and still widely used. That tells you something. Hell, I even enjoyed VisualBasic (well, until .NET came along).
Someone mentioned ISAM too. VisualBasic for DOS had ISAM as well and I wrote many database programs back in the early to mid 90's for a company I was with. It's a shame that wasn't developed further.
BASIC was designed to be a tool to let people enter programming quickly. The same for PASCAL. It's a shame languages like these aren't revered more. BASIC has been around now since 1965 and still widely used. That tells you something. Hell, I even enjoyed VisualBasic (well, until .NET came along).
Someone mentioned ISAM too. VisualBasic for DOS had ISAM as well and I wrote many database programs back in the early to mid 90's for a company I was with. It's a shame that wasn't developed further.