Peter Swinkels wrote on 2023-09-06, 09:21:Does anyone here still use any of the following programming languages: […]
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Does anyone here still use any of the following programming languages:
1. GwBasic
2. Q(uick Basic)
3. Visual Basic for MS-DOS
4. Visual Basic 2.0-4.0 for Windows 3.x
5. Visual Basic 5.0-6.0
6. Other old programming languages for other platforms.
?
Yes! Perhaps not so regularly now though
and also others now and then:
BASM - basic to assembly tool, the resultant code can be edited and then needs to be assembled and linked old school style 😀
MASM - Microsoft assembler
TASM - Borland 'turbo' assembler
in addition to QBASIC also Quick Basic 4.5 and Quick Basic Professional Development System 7.1, also used a dos tools called "power basic" once and have tried at various times other basics like RapidQ, GFA basic, Basic4GL, Blitz Basic & BlitzMax (which still exists as open source!) and others. For 'modern' basics i use what's left of VB6 in office VBA occasionally and also VB.NET sparingly plus of course Freebasic
Microsoft C
Turbo C and later Borland tools like Builder
Pacific C
and various others less frequently plus modern implementations gcc and c\c++ as implemented in visual studio
Turbo Pascal and later Borland tools up to Delphi 7 and of course lazarus and freepascal as modern tools
for later / modern things i have done things in java, javascript, c#.net, python and a few others
it's almost all dabbling and trying things out though i did make a few full applications (mostly command line utilities and some games)
i enjoyed the scene back then, especially all the DOS stuff around graphics, the text file guides and their authors (like Denthor and others), the forums and so on
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this makes me want to hobby program again, its been years - when i look online for hobby game dev videos now i just see people dropping things into visual components and after some clicks and some seemingly unconnected lines there's a car driving around a full landscape... looks great but the tools themselves seem to have high upfront learning costs and its quite a jump from the older 'all text' appraoch