You once mentioned that you use QB to prototype algorithms. What modern advantages does it have to something like FreeBASIC? What reasons remain to still be using it?
Thanks.
0xC0DE at
Re: What are the modern advantages of QBasic, Ken?
well, I can't speak for ken :) but it has no modern advantages over any other "new" versions of basic at all.
Why would any sane programmer use it then ? because they (might have) started with that language, so it sort of became their mother-language. For example I started development in C on the GameBoy. And thus I still write new algorithms for that platform first, because I really feel comfortable on it.
you see, writing new algorithms is really all about finding a solution to a problem and translate that into code. And it's just a lot easier when you don't have to think about how to 'tell' the computer what to do. So you can fully focus on the problem itself.
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Awesoken at
These days, I use Evaldraw for most of my prototyping needs. I'll use QB only for those things where Evaldraw is lacking, such as file or string handling. As 0xCODE pointed out, my main interest is in playing around with the algorithms, and not learning new syntax.