XPost: comp.lang.misc   
   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 06.08.2025 17:17, John Ames wrote:   
   > On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 16:30:36 +0200   
   > Janis Papanagnou  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Just recently I picked a piece of old BASIC code - granted,   
   >> it was not one of the fancier new BASIC dialects but back   
   >> from the "glory mainframe days"   
   >   
   > Yeah, the Elder BASICs are a different story. FreeBasic made a fairly   
   > decent language out of the QB lineage, though - still use that semi-   
   > regularly for proof-of-concept stuff and quick li'l one-off utilities.   
      
   (For "one-off utilities" I prefer using some standard language   
   or tool; for me that's not different from other development.)   
      
   One problem with BASIC is that, as they say, there are as many   
   different dialects as different systems running it. I was very   
   astonished to find [in Wikipedia] a list of 373 BASIC dialects,   
   and yet more astonished that one of the four BASICs I used in   
   the past (Olivetti, Commodore, Wang, Sharp) was even missing;   
   the Olivetti thing having been a very interesting BASIC beast!   
      
   I actually started with BASIC but used it only a couple years.   
   Once other languages were available I wholeheartedly switched.   
      
   Janis   
      
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