[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[bill]

On 1/11/2024 1:30 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-01-11, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 1/10/2024 9:28 PM, bill wrote:
>>> On 1/10/2024 7:02 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>>> The world has evolved.
>>>
>>> Exactly.  BASIC also evolved, but better languages have passed it by.
>>>
>>
>> I confess to curiosity.  In what ways has other languages passed by Basic?
>>
> 
> There are multiple languages that have left BASIC in the dust.
> 
> If you want an initial teaching language, Python is _absolutely_ the
> language you start people off with these days. BASIC is absolutely
> dead here, and for very good reason.

Other than high schools and a few community colleges BASIC saw very
little use for real teaching in the CS/CIS world.  And just in case
your curious, I just had a short conversation with a very experienced
CS professor I used to work with and he commented on the unsuitability
of Python for teaching programming even though it has become the
standard.

> 
> If you want to write business applications, then either Java or a
> subset of C++. C++ subset to be chosen based on programmer skillsets
> and the problem to be solved.

Or COBOL which was actually designed for the task.

bill