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Nimue

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Posted: 09:56am 10 Dec 2020

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Came across this use case for QBasic this morning...

https://fuzzmonkeybear.blogspot.com/2020/12/qbasic-in-action-why-i-chose-qbasic-at.html?fbclid=IwAR0kgSGbT4CuKTOUy5g28CUARx1DDjQFSpWh6ib6V2TsUeyl1YQ5Z1srxGc

And, this is why BASIC still has a place in the real world.

Off to port this to the CMM2 for the fun of it.

Nim

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Posted: 10:32am 10 Dec 2020

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Nimue said Came across this use case for QBasic this morning...

https://fuzzmonkeybear.blogspot.com/2020/12/qbasic-in-action-why-i-chose-qbasic-at.html?fbclid=IwAR0kgSGbT4CuKTOUy5g28CUARx1DDjQFSpWh6ib6V2TsUeyl1YQ5Z1srxGc

And, this is why BASIC still has a place in the real world.

Off to port this to the CMM2 for the fun of it.

Nim

Yes, BASIC lives! I made my living programming in nothing but various dialects of BASIC (Thoroughbred, DEC BASIC Plus, Wang BASIC, MS BASIC, among others) for over 40 years and it's still going strong at my old office since I retired a few years ago.

My staff, made up of a lot of new grads, used to come in all ready to use C++, Java or whatever and were dismayed to see that I used only BASIC. That is until they saw just what BASIC can do. Colleges teach CompSci students that BASIC is evil incarnate and should be avoided at all costs. It's up to us BASIC fans to set them straight!

Nimue

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Posted: 12:14pm 10 Dec 2020

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100% agree.

I wrote process control software (circa 1991) in QBASIC - it is still in use today and I occasionally get asked to update it as all the incoming engineers can do Python, Matlab etc etc and they "freak out" when shown BASIC. Problem is that many of the CS lecturers have never themselves used BASIC and their knowledge stops with a hate of the GOTO.

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JohnS
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Posted: 07:19pm 10 Dec 2020

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toml_12953 said Colleges teach CompSci students that BASIC is evil incarnate and should be avoided at all costs.

I'm surprised they even mention it exists.

John

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