> >Put another way. >How many of us started with Basic ? - >I did, then moved on to Z80a assembly. > >From the previous sentence, the old timers on the list will know exactly >what computer I was using.
hmmm either a zx80, zx81 or sinclair spectrum .... Sounds like you and took the same dev path way. Still, I have no problems with basic, spending about 60% of my time programming in one variant of it or another. It is after all the mainstay of VB, VB Script, Lotus Script, qBasic and innumerable other languages which make it possible to customise a variety of apps on a variety of platforms. I have enjoyed watching it grow and mature (yes I miss line numbers too but have a program which will put them in for debug purposes) and to be honest find it not much different to Java now days in the way it handles most things. Having coded in C, Pascal and other languages I still find myself coming back to basic type languages for most quick and dirty jobs. It is a pity really that in about 5 years time it will probably be gone as M$ are pushing the Java^h^h^h^h c# language more and moe. Still thanks for teaching me how to loop, do while, wend, for if else and break , all the basics a programmer needs. Shane -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 1/04/2005
