John Vanderaart answers questions on pcactive.nl, this time whether it is difficult to program in Basic.
I would like to program something in Basic. Is that hard to do?
Simone de K.
Basic (= Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is of course outdated. Today, C# and Python are the main programming languages. And of course some JavaScript and PHP. Which does not alter the fact that for many programmers it once started with Basic. For example, who is not familiar with the Basic interpreter GW-Basic from Microsoft? With the sort of successor QuickBasic, a real Basic compiler. And after that we also get QBasic from MD-DOS 5.0. In combination with the DOS emulator {DOSBox} you can run multiple Basic versions just fine (see image below). And then you will soon experience that Basic is indeed a very pleasant programming language. Mind you, the original versions of Basic are in principle not intended for the graphical screen; can be though…
Link: https://www.qbasic.net/en/qbasic-downloads/DOS/Windows-Solutions.htm
QuickBasic, among others, can be used in combination with the DOSBox.