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Of the languages I've used, Visual Basic (pre-.NET). I never used Hypercard, but I hear it was pretty good too. Newer languages tend to be too complicated to
by panic 10y ago
Of the languages I've used, Visual Basic (pre-.NET). I never used Hypercard, but I hear it was pretty good too. Newer languages tend to be too complicated to have great development environments.
- wallace_f 10y agoI really did not expect to see someone say pre-.NET VB on Hacker News
- bbcbasic 10y agoHN never fails to suprise. I found vb6 ok for simple stuff but a recipe for spaghetti on medium to large projects
- wallace_f 10y agoI had to use it at one job and it was exactly that, a spaghetti nightmare. I did not like it. I don't want to say it's bad, though, I just prefer to shy away from it and don't see any point in using it again.
- bbcbasic 10y agoIt certainly had its place on Windows development before .net was released