Why did we stop using Basic?
Why did we stop using Basic?
Angel Morris
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Julian Lewis
kids lost interest in programming
computers stopped being something you operate and became a form of entertainment
Matthew Hill
Because QBasic could not generate Win32 programs and no other Basic compilers were shipped with the OS. (Visual Basic did gain some traction, but required Visual Studio which was a huge barrier.) I would've never gotten into QBasic if it hadn't been shipped with DOS.
Chase Martin
It's too Basic
Xavier Wilson
It's still a good educational language for grade school students.
Camden Nelson
Borland Turbo debugger was better
Christopher Sanchez
Its honestly a better head start on logic and algebra concepts than anything I could think of for youngins
Ethan Turner
It didn't have to be QBasic. I'm just sad that they didn't include SOME form of Basic for modern computers. QB64 can port Qbasic apps to win64/Mac/Linux
Jace Cooper
>kids lost interest in programming
false, they swapped it out in schools for spreadsheets, word processing and *maybe* html.
I was there when they were forced to bring it back by way of visualbasic, but by then the damage had been done and now we have zoom calls instead of someone understanding how to setup voip software services.
Jonathan Lee
I was so mad. The year before I went to high school they learned Java. When I got there they started teaching VB and by the time I left HS they went to html/javascript
Jayden King
Because Common Lisp is a superior programming language
Kayden Sullivan
Even back in the day the vast majority of kids who used computers used them for playing games and copy games off from their friends.
Adam Wright
Shitty language that became pointless once computers became powerful enough to self-host compilers and development environments for better ones.
Michael Russell
if you want to use Basic, use Basic bro. there are many interpreters and compilers out there.
Aiden Johnson
We've strayed to far away from God.
Lincoln Davis
Because it's absolutely awful. Yes, it was great for pedagogical use, but that doesn't keep projects alive in an ever-shifting landscape.
Brayden Murphy
Because it was shit and slow. Just use C instead. Visual Basic was okay and a good successor and final successor. It was pretty comfy. The syntax was pretty shit though. Sadly its dead other then VBA.
Camden Baker
We didn't, Visual Basic is still used.
Evan Garcia
VB Net is overcomplicated and defeats the point of Basic.
Grayson Price
You fucking degenerate, never heard of gorillas.bas?
This. QBasic was my first programming language and will always have a special place in my heart. But goddamn is it an ugly programming language. I remeber doing things like "GOTO 120" to jump to a line number lol.Then you would insert one line and it was all blowing up in your face. Good times but also awful times.
Isaac Richardson
Delphi/Lazarus exist.
Liam Nguyen
Turbo Pascal was just better.