Visual BASIC: Is The Best That Can Be Done? (2003)

by David S. Mazel.

BASIC. It's not just a word, it's a programming language. In fact, BASIC is one of the first programming languages a person would learn just a few years ago. It was THE language for the personal computer. The Apple II, Apple II+, Apple IIe, TRS-80, Commodore, IBM PC, IBM PC-AT, you name one of the early computers and BASIC was the language of choice. It was, what's more, the only language. Well, there was always assembler code and I remember buying Zak's 6502 programming book to program my Apple II+. Ah, those were the days. They weren't all good, of course. You had to learn assembly because BASIC was interpretive so if you wanted speed, you had to write in assembly. [via]

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