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I'm a developer (probably not talented, but whatever :D ) in my 30s-40s and yup, Commodore basic, Logo, then qbasic and others... can you elaborate on why Javas
by scarecrowbob 13y ago
I'm a developer (probably not talented, but whatever :D ) in my 30s-40s and yup, Commodore basic, Logo, then qbasic and others... can you elaborate on why Javascript is not the "answer"?
I know that you don't generally have access to the whole machine like we do with something like Commodore basic, but at the same time it has a very low barrier to doing stuff and has a console in most browsers... at least to me it seems like a reasonable comparison.
- bjourne 13y agoIm not a tutor so I don't know. But I wager that Javascript's event-based execution model is very cryptic in comparisons with Basic's simple "do this, then that, then something more." And you need to use lambda functions, need to place semi-colons in the right places etc. And to even put a pixel on the screen (vertically centered!) you need to know a fair bit of both js, css and html. And that's just the language. QBasic was available pre-installed on all pc:s, came with syntax highlighting, context sensitive editing, and a very good help system. If you pressed F1 on any Basic command it would show you complete help for it along with a full example. The good examples was important because I was using QBasic before I was good at English.