Subj : Is BASIC to be regarded as less than reputable prog lang?
To   : Malvinas
From : Bob Worm
Date : Tue Jul 09 2024 13:59:01

  Re: Is BASIC to be regarded as less than reputable prog lang?
  By: Malvinas to All on Sat Jul 06 2024 22:07:17

Hi, Malvinas.

 > Anyway, what's anyones thoughts on this? Have you any experience with BASIC?
 > Was it also you first programming language??

For me, BASIC was my first programming language. I believe the first one I really used was GW-BASIC in DOS - if only I'd read some kind of guide on programming style / techniques instead of just the keyword reference... maybe I could have made some nice code!

I tried to self teach C and Pascal, which didn't go well, then I was taught both again in university and suddenly things made sense! Pointers... structures... now I can do some real programming!

I hadn't done much since then, 20 years or so, then I got out some old computers from the garage and started trying to use BASIC. It drove me *mad*, so different. But thankfully both the computers used BBC BASIC, which has a very good reputation, lets you mess around with pointers and system calls easily and also has an in-built assembler. So mostly today I just use BASIC to build the program structure, then convert it all to assembler once it works.

BobW
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