At the same time that I was tinkering with Turbo Pascal, migrate my old GWBasic first programs to QuickBasic 3 and later 4.5 my experimental little programs like as file encryptor or litte inventory management with sequential files, good times!
I learned AppleSoft Basic and C64 Basic way before GW-BASIC. I have to admit, QBASIC changed my life. The face that line numbers were optional was a game-changer.
When start early child programming experience on my fathers VIC20, a short time. Then touch up with CPC6128 and Dragon 32. Finally when I moved to PC world start with GWBASIC, then QuickBasic 3 and finally PDS 7.1 (I think the best and complete BASIC applications development environment for DOS).
Had fun creating monster spaghetti code with QuickBASIC 30 years ago. Porting it to Visual Basic a few years later was fun too. The computer store dude said anyone using BASIC wasn't a 'real' programmer, lol.
Its totally true, when I was young begin with BASIC and do some large pices of code (horrible thing) but I don’t known any practices for improve the code. Make sense! When start at university learned top down techniques and looking back to my old code and say: In the past only known is coding as a monkey, not as engineer. But in this days I looked some software engineers coding as mokeys doing spagetti code in C# and they feels a “real” programmers, they never touched BASIC!
QuickBasic also allows you to apply structured programming techniques and top down desing using Subs and Functions without goto’s statements rather than GWBasic using line numbers, Gotos and loooong pices of code.
Modern BASIC is way different. They didn't like BASIC early on because it was interpreted. Python and Perl are also interpreted, and people don't typically complain about those languages. QBasic changed how programs were written and gave a great deal of flexibility that was missing in the former renditions. It was lacking due to the limitations given by the system but even those limitations were overcome with libraries compiled with C and Assembler.
I got QB4 for my 11th birthday. I was so excited because I could finally make my own .EXEs! Up until that point I writing programs in GW-BASIC, which required the interpreter. I did find a copy of a shareware Modula-2 DOS compiler off a local BBS and it was fully functional and could produce executables. But it required that I learned Modula-2, which wasn't too bad but I liked BASIC more at the time.
I remember the same, but start with BASIC in PC world with GWBASIC and my fathers also use for his job and use basic compiler and linker to generate executables from GWBASIC source codes. Later I use QB3 from my fathers disk. My friends download some software from local BBS and gets Microsoft PDS 7.1 and used until 1999.
HEHEHE ... I was a geek during the 80's i had forgotten about the QuickBasic ..thanks for the memories
At the same time that I was tinkering with Turbo Pascal, migrate my old GWBasic first programs to QuickBasic 3 and later 4.5 my experimental little programs like as file encryptor or litte inventory management with sequential files, good times!
LOL back in the 80's made a living with QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal, and Base... Ah to have those days back...
I remember also these days but in my case at 90s!
I learned AppleSoft Basic and C64 Basic way before GW-BASIC. I have to admit, QBASIC changed my life. The face that line numbers were optional was a game-changer.
When start early child programming experience on my fathers VIC20, a short time. Then touch up with CPC6128 and Dragon 32. Finally when I moved to PC world start with GWBASIC, then QuickBasic 3 and finally PDS 7.1 (I think the best and complete BASIC applications development environment for DOS).
I always love start from a little 1 at the start, like a golfing green when i start a program.
Who reckons divide by 0 should return INTMAX as an output and not be an error?
Its a QuickBasic think. I forced do this error to test debug process or error handling of interpreter. Maybe Microsoft do in this manner.
Line numbers were optional ??
OMG.. finding that out 40 years later makes me feel stupid.
Don't worry, it's never too late to learn!
@@tomeucapo Al poco me pasé al C/C++ que es lo que utilizo para trabajar.
@@yamitanomura Yo tambien uso C++ en el trabajo :)
Had fun creating monster spaghetti code with QuickBASIC 30 years ago. Porting it to Visual Basic a few years later was fun too. The computer store dude said anyone using BASIC wasn't a 'real' programmer, lol.
Its totally true, when I was young begin with BASIC and do some large pices of code (horrible thing) but I don’t known any practices for improve the code. Make sense! When start at university learned top down techniques and looking back to my old code and say: In the past only known is coding as a monkey, not as engineer. But in this days I looked some software engineers coding as mokeys doing spagetti code in C# and they feels a “real” programmers, they never touched BASIC!
QuickBasic also allows you to apply structured programming techniques and top down desing using Subs and Functions without goto’s statements rather than GWBasic using line numbers,
Gotos and loooong pices of code.
Modern BASIC is way different. They didn't like BASIC early on because it was interpreted. Python and Perl are also interpreted, and people don't typically complain about those languages. QBasic changed how programs were written and gave a great deal of flexibility that was missing in the former renditions. It was lacking due to the limitations given by the system but even those limitations were overcome with libraries compiled with C and Assembler.
I got QB4 for my 11th birthday. I was so excited because I could finally make my own .EXEs! Up until that point I writing programs in GW-BASIC, which required the interpreter. I did find a copy of a shareware Modula-2 DOS compiler off a local BBS and it was fully functional and could produce executables. But it required that I learned Modula-2, which wasn't too bad but I liked BASIC more at the time.
I remember the same, but start with BASIC in PC world with GWBASIC and my fathers also use for his job and use basic compiler and linker to generate executables from GWBASIC source codes. Later I use QB3 from my fathers disk. My friends download some software from local BBS and gets Microsoft PDS 7.1 and used until 1999.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE
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PC Talk III
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