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BASIC was an attempt to allow people to write software in what looked like English, and indeed it was extremely successful (cf. Visual Basic). The lang
by DonaldFisk 7y ago
BASIC was an attempt to allow people to write software
in what looked like English, and indeed it was extremely
successful (cf. Visual Basic).
The language designed to look like English was COBOL. BASIC looked nothing like English. The reason it became popular was because you could develop programs interactively - edit, run, load, and save programs - without ever leaving the system. It was still programming, though (as was COBOL).
Visual Basic was released many years later, and looked very different from the original BASIC.
- collyw 7y agoWasn't the main reason for VB's success the fact that it had a really good GUI builder and that a version was integrated into Excel?
- Turing_Machine 7y agoYes, the VB GUI builder was excellent (as compared to the language itself, which was meh, IMO). Some people even used it to build GUIs for applications where the bulk of the code was written in another language. VBA was in all the Office applications... Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access...