[Info-vax] off topic: BASIC (was Re: 64-bit)

[mjos_examine]

On 2024-01-09 6:34 p.m., Dave Froble wrote:
>>
>> BASIC ... you got to be kidding, right?
>>
>> If kids wanted to learn programming these days, I would point them at
>> Python.
>>
> 
> Bigot alert ....

Outside of UNIX, and beyond VMS, I think BASIC did have a pretty good 
run in the 90's and early 2000's, particularly on the Windows desktop 
platform.

Visual Basic (classic, producing native applications) was popular in the 
90's, especially.

Eventually, .NET came along and they switched Visual Basic over to 
producing managed applications, but C# quickly overtook BASIC in 
popularity there.

Also, back when MS introduced their scripting host, vbscript was a very 
popular language for that. Powershell's introduction is probably what 
changed that landscape.

I think Visual Basic for Applications was also popular for macros and 
automation within the MS Office suite back in the day. I don't really 
know if it still is.

That's all I have to say about that.