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Phred wrote:
> In article <W2Apd.14268$Uf.366@twister.nyroc.rr.com>, "Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>>>I really wish that the Microsoft developers had just continued extending
>>>QuickBasic and PDS, instead of fluttering off to Visual Land.
>>
>>You said it!
> 
> 
> It's all part of The Plan.  Once upon a time there were many 
> enthusiasts who wrote useful programs in BASIC; but the Powers That Be 
> saw that this was a Bad Thing and introduced all the complexities of 
> the modern Visual languages, allegedly to the benefit of the users of 
> the programs, but, in reality, to get rid of those nasty amateurs 
> competing with the company's bottom line.


Shit, I grew up programming in TRS80 line numbered BASIC, moved on to PC 
based TurboBasic, then Professional BASIC (and that was a beautiful 
language after the previous two), and now am quite happy with the world 
of VB .NET. Nothing hard about it, it's just event driven and has a 
shitload more functionality. I'm quite happy with the evolution of BASIC 
even if it doesn't look a lot like BASIC any more.

In fact if anything things are 1000 times easier. As a kiddy me and a 
friend wrote a BBS in TRS80 basic, it was fucking difficult, none of the 
tools were there, everything had to be written from scratch and there 
was no Internet to do your research on. The many pain-ridden months 
(that dragged into a year or two of rewrites to add functionality) would 
be compressed into a week or two with the tools, language functionality 
and research magic of the Internet available to us these days!