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Item added by PTRoxieMisha. Added on 11/29/2004
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jedi58
10/21/2009

BASIC 3

BASIC is the first language I ever learnt, back on the Spectrum during the 80's around the age of 6 or 7 (so around 1989/90 :P). By the time I was at high school I was used to the BASIC on several different machines including the BBC and Amstrad, and I think it is for this reason I will always have some residual fondness for it despite I've long since moved on. The name BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code which is why for a long time it has been a way of introducing people to programming as it is a fairly high level language (which means it is closer to English than a low level language such as Assembly). These days I think a lot of people are introduced more directly with JavaScript, PHP or sometimes even Microsoft's VisualBasic.NET which does have some left overs from it's ancient beginnings.

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mattg
06/10/2005

BASIC 1

Even as an instructional language, BASIC sucks. It lacks support for things like higher-order operations that prevent from being used in the more advanced CS courses. Also, Microsoft should be smacked for using this sorry excuse for a language as the basis for VB. It's yet another example of how they reinforce mediocrity.

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caliswimguy
12/28/2004

BASIC 1

Although great in the 80's and early 90's, BASIC has absolutly no purpose in modern computer programming. No longer is it a good learning language (as Delphi and Visual Basic beat it there) and it most definatly can't be used for any major application development.

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