Anecdotally, I recently went back and did some QuickBasic 4.5 programming, and was surprised how decent the experience actually was. I was on a retro kick, and

Anecdotally, I recently went back and did some QuickBasic 4.5 programming, and was surprised how decent the experience actually was. I was on a retro kick, and was working backward/up to to doing some IBM PCjr hardware cartridge programming/ROM design. I still have a stack of old programming books from the mid 80's and early 90's and it was great to dust them off and re-read them with a fresh/older set of eyes. I ended up doing some simple graphics programming on an old 386sx. Using QB for high-level code, and interfacting with some ASM for lower level graphics and data processing, it was actually quite pleasant. But then, the reference PCjr that I was targeting/experimenting on finally gave up the ghost and died, and I lost interest in hunting down a new one... Poor little guy. What I took away from the experience is while the tools were more primitive, it wasn't the languages that sucked when I was learning to program in the mid 80's and early 90's as a kid; it was me. I sucked at programming.