Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

sheercon@earthlink.net wrote:

>
> Does one even /need/ to go to school to learn Visual Basic? With regular basic you
> could memorize all of the commands in 30 minutes and you knew how to "program" in it.
> I've seen Visual Basic - it looks even easier; with forms and windows you need even
> less programming knowledge. At least they got rid of the line numbers. I always
> understood BASIC to be a sloppy programming language but good for school children;
> hence the name - Beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code. It must have grown up
> however if companies are paying people to program with it.(or is it like html
> "programming" positions that pay a little more than minimum wage? heh)
>
> Brian

I think you underestimate the power and flexibility of BASIC. 90% of the early Apple
software was written in basic. This includes some really great games. Granted some
were enhanced with assembly but the major code is still BASIC.

I just released a file utility for Apple II written in ZBASIC. A very powerful system.
The beauty of BASIC is you can concentrate on the program and not how the language
works you are trying to create the program in.

Phoenyx