Re: Modern BASIC languages
By: Gorkh to All on Sun Sep 23 2018 04:25 am
Go> Hey, does anyone tinker with these modern BASIC languages?
I didn't think there was really a modern BASIC programming language.. Can you
give an example of a "modern BASIC"? And I'm wondering if Microsoft's Visual
Basic even counts, since that language is fairly well-featured and ties into
.NET now, so it shares a lot of features with the other .NET languages..
Go> Back in the day, BASIC was not 'viable' for many projects, because only
Go> machine language had the speed required. Then C++ was created, and as
Go> computers got faster, people were able to program all kinds of things with
Go> it.
They didn't go directly from machine language to C++.. There was a language
called C in between there, which came before C++. C has sometimes been called
"portable assembly" since it builds for many platforms but is still a language
for making fairly fast software (including operating systems).
Nightfox
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