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> Basic is even more nearly dead I would not say so. The BASIC used in the Office pack is the last child of the MS-BASIC/GWBASIC/QBASIC/QuickBasic/VisualBasic
by shakow 4y ago
> Basic is even more nearly dead
I would not say so. The BASIC used in the Office pack is the last child of the MS-BASIC/GWBASIC/QBASIC/QuickBasic/VisualBasic lineage, is still (unfortunately?) very much alive, and probably powering a much bigger part of the modern world than we should be comfortable with.
- galangalalgol 4y agoVBA isn't that bad a language. Compiles to native and runs with impressive speed. Lots of built in libraries for numeric programming among other things and fairly easy to call into any dll. The issue is it's accessibility. Like JS and Python people blame the language for what happens when you hand people with no software training and an interest only in solving their immediate problem, a computer language they are productive in. And how can we call basic dead when VB.net is still in the tiobe top 10?
- BlueTemplar 4y agoI was also exposed to a variant of BASIC in high school through my scientific calculator. I wonder if it is still the case ?
- shakow 4y agoIf you are thinking of TI calculators, it's very much still the case; at least until the nspire range completely takes over the older models.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoCasio actually, but I am not surprised that TI would have done the same.