Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Wow! The memories - I wrote an OpenGL game in Realbasic for the Mac 15 years ago... the trouble with Real Software was that they changed the language and broke backwards compatibility... that turned me off big time. Back in the day I used Amos on the amiga and Microsoft QBX on the PC to write though-the-window display software for real estate agents (this was 26 years ago). The issue with basic in those days was libraries - doing system level stuff (e.g. using Super VGA graphics required a paid 3rd party library)... ahh the memories... these days i’m C++ / C# / PHP / etc. although the most fun I’ve had recently has been with 8088 assembler...

Back in the day basic was frowned upon - but I think these days the stigma is pretty much gone...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: