I stopped writing Basic about 5 years ago. I started with Commodore Basic in the late eighties, wrote some tools for personal use, but my first income apps were

I stopped writing Basic about 5 years ago. I started with Commodore Basic in the late eighties, wrote some tools for personal use, but my first income apps were in COBOL (really) and FoxPro. I had to write Basic again in ~ 2000 for work, a bit of VB but mostly VBA in Access and Excel and I completely gave up when I found better ways to do it. Today we have a single VB app at work that I plan to have it rewritten, but mostly because we have not enough people to support and modify it when needed. While Basic was a good tool in my childhood, it is hard these days to find good software engineers willing to use it, tools good enough to use and people willing to pay for apps written in Basic.