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I liked BASIC, but haven't done anything with it since Microsoft cut Visual Basic 6 - wish they had open sourced it back in the day. It probably would have thri
by kerng 7y ago
I liked BASIC, but haven't done anything with it since Microsoft cut Visual Basic 6 - wish they had open sourced it back in the day. It probably would have thrived. I might have written some VB Script at times afterwards (for security testing) but not really using other than that.
So, no BASIC project since 1999 for me. VB had cool editor, amazing debugging capabilities (still not matched by anything these days, we are often even going backwards with new languages) and was great for developing and visualizing data tier apps quickly - or "rapidly" how it was called back then.
First programs I wrote were in BASIC on Amstrad CPC and Commodore computers. Fun times.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoI agree. VB6 was limited (in some parts in pretty idiotic ways), but for prototyping and simple GUIs it was far ahead of anything else. While I do think modern IDEs do have more powerful debugging features it was really good for its time, and the IDE was super snappy. Even on some slow P133 you'd type an object's name and as soon as you hit '.' you got the list of methods, no perceivable delay. The move to .NET made the language more involved, imo to a point where there was no reason not to just use C#.
- Pamar 7y ago...but for prototyping and simple GUIs it was far ahead of anything else... Better than Delphi? This is out of genuine curiosity because I have basically zero experience with both.
- RantyDave 7y agoYes, but only just. Delphi was a saner language and IIRC faster, too. Both of them blew the modern web front end tools into the weeds. Twenty five years ago.