Believe it or not I know for a fact that Basic is still used. I have a friend that has his own IT company and they do all of their programming in some variation of Basic, I forget the exact name. I do know that it's not Visual Basic. He started out working on Basic Four systems and just stayed with Basic. He's been programming in Basic ever since he graduated from college back in the early 70's. I'm actually surprised that he's still using Basic on Unix PCs but that's what he's doing. And, he's got a nice sized small company with about 30 people now. But you're right, I wouldn't say Basic is the most popular language right now, but it's a good place to start learning programming. It was the first language I learned in my freshman year of college. It was required for all Math majors to take a Basic language programming course.
Don't know if anyone is still using Pascal. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:00 PM Subject: [jdjlist] RE: what is it like to be a programmer "in the real wor ld" ? > Pascal or Basic are not languages that are popular in industry. I doubt they > are used at all. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark E. Zawadzki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:45 AM > Subject: [jdjlist] RE: what is it like to be a programmer "in the real wor > ld" ? > > > > You can get free, legal copies of old Borland products (Turbo Pascal, > Turbo C) from the Borland > > Museum > > http://community.borland.com/museum/ > > > > Try pascal. There are a lot of first programming books in Pascal that you > will find in used book > > stores (*cheeeap*) and public libraries. IMHO, its better than Basic, as > Basic can lure you into > > all kinds of bad habits. > > > > > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > No it's not a joke Tim... It's a very common first program for beginers > > > that could apply to any language... Maybe you should start with BASIC. > If > > > you have an old copy of Microsoft's DOS start Qbasic from the command > line > > > and start hacking away. Failing that get an old copy of Visual Basic if > you > > > can such as Ver 3.0 or 4.0... That's the way I started out... With > QBasic, > > > then VB, then C, then C++ and so on to where I am today with Java. > > > > > > Java is fairly easy but you need a sound basis in object oriented > > > programming and the syntax is kind of cryptic... BASIC is more > procedural > > > in nature and the syntax is easier for beginners... That's why it's > called > > > Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. > > > > > > Greg. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > > > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > > > > > ===== > > > > Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire' > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "Democracies die behind closed doors," - Judge Damon Keith > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > > > ______________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > ______________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
