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I was very surprised he said Basic. Of course, he presume he doesn't do much hard core software engineering anymore, but I assumed that family was pretty much
by Edootjuh 14y ago
I was very surprised he said Basic.
Of course, he presume he doesn't do much hard core software engineering anymore, but I assumed that family was pretty much a thing of the past (and legacy code).
- pnathan 14y agoGates has a long history with BASIC. It would, IMO, stand to reason that he would keep his hand in.
- astine 14y agoGates founded Microsoft to sell a Basic interpreter. His company spent a lot of time keeping Basic as a core part of its line up long after it was considered passé. I suspect that Gates has some nostalgia for it.
- 0x0 14y agoYeah, Microsoft really is the "BASIC company". From the early 8bit machines (did you know the Commodore 64 BASIC ROM is (c) Microsoft?) through qbasic and all the way up to visual basic and VBA...
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoNot just the Commodore; the Apple II, TRS-80, and MSX all used Microsoft's BASIC in one form or another. It shouldn't be any surprise at all that their dev tools continue to be rather well done (regardless of what you think of the platform they're on)
- sp332 14y agoVB.Net is a completely different beast from older Visual Basic (up to VB6). It's still under active development as a first-class citizen on MS's .Net stack. It has iterators, generics, partial classes, anonymous types, lambdas, and other stuff you wouldn't expect to find in a BASIC.
- bloaf 14y agoThere is "Small Basic" which is a bit more capable than the QBASIC of yore. http://smallbasic.com/about.aspx http://smallbasic.com/about.aspx
- kunai 14y agoI'm pretty sure he meant VB. I don't think anybody programs in pure QBasic anymore.