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As someone who actually uses Quickbasic I strongly disagree. (We use quickbasic to deal with custom counters and data manipulation by project. Data processing f
by Dobbs 17y ago
As someone who actually uses Quickbasic I strongly disagree. (We use quickbasic to deal with custom counters and data manipulation by project. Data processing for political surveys.)
Quickbasic made sense back in the day where you had limited graphical and sound power. When you booted a computer and you got a basic command prompt. When you learned the basics of computers and programming by typing in programs from magazines.
Basic does not make sense in today's world. It is complicated unnecessarily and it doesn't have some of the advantages that more modern languages like Ruby and Python have. It doesn't have the library support that these languages have that allow you to easily do things like build web pages, simple media players, and other such things with ease.
- axod 17y agoI think for a start, we should teach new programmers to not be language snobs. To value their programming ability far higher than any particular language. Creating new programming languages isn't hard, that's why there's so many of the things.
- Dobbs 17y agoIt has nothing to do with snobbery it has to do with getting people interested. My little sister will be more likely to keep programming if she can build a website in as little time as possible. Once she has done that she will slowly expand learning more and more. Quickbasic doesn't have that ability it doesn't have the libraries to allow an easy start. This is beyond the fact that the language itself makes it difficult to things that are simple in other languages.