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Title: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: FellippeHeitor on October 30, 2021, 03:27:33 pm: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource:
https://www.thebdr.net/back-to-basics-can-be-a-good-idea/
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: Cobalt on October 30, 2021, 03:34:37 pm: Sweet!
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: Petr on October 30, 2021, 03:40:11 pm: Thanks for sharing. I was really pleased with this.
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: doppler on October 30, 2021, 04:18:04 pm: I remember playing with Dartmouth basic on 8080 assembler long ago. It was a little quirky with a limit of 32K ram. When bit 15 (8000H) was on it meant something different in the source code. Fuzzy memory about using bit 15 to signify a jump to code in the lower 32k, mask bit 15 and call or go to address. Used on goto, gosub and more spots. Microsoft borrowed heavily from Dartmouth, for MSBasic. So you could say Dartmouth Basic is the grandfather of QB64.
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: Dav on October 30, 2021, 05:53:31 pm: Nice!

- Dav
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: Pete on October 30, 2021, 10:54:34 pm: Now that was a very well done article. I dropped the author a line.

Pete
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: ErnieTech on October 30, 2021, 11:17:26 pm: The Zeitgeist du jour of coding seems to be focused on languages which in principle expand career opportunities or the that run on a RPi. What if Python, Golang or Ruby rub you the wrong way? What if your in-brain programming lexicon is firmly entrenched in QB and you only feel happy coding in a blue box?

I sit down with Python and I grouse. I sit down with QB and I grin.

That's my litmus test.
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: Pete on October 30, 2021, 11:47:37 pm: Quote from: ErnieTech on October 30, 2021, 11:17:26 pm
The Zeitgeist du jour of coding seems to be focused on languages which in principle expand career opportunities or the that run on a RPi. What if Python, Golang or Ruby rub you the wrong way? What if your in-brain programming lexicon is firmly entrenched in QB and you only feel happy coding in a blue box?

I sit down with Python and I grouse. I sit down with QB and I grin.

That's my litmus test.

Likewise, I doubt anyone could convince me there is a language more Intuitive than QB / QB64.

Pete

- Running with SCREEN 0 up and phasers on _FULLSCREEN
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: Qwerkey on October 31, 2021, 06:32:14 am: More deserved positive publicity.

Quote from: ErnieTech on October 30, 2021, 11:17:26 pm
The Zeitgeist du jour

Two European languages in one phrase; the European Commission will be beyond themselves! I think that we should have also included Portuguese as a nod to our commander:

"Zeitgeist atual du jour"
Title: Re: “Back To BASICs Can Be A Good Idea” at The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
Post by: TempodiBasic on October 31, 2021, 09:23:26 pm: Too nice that article.
It confirms the point of view of Steve about the nostagic user of Qbasic that searches a way to bring again to life his BASIC code.