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Gates and Allen (both Microsoft founding fathers) wrote a version of BASIC for the Altair personal computer. It was the first product Microsoft sold.
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Must be Service Pack 347 by now.
I think BASIC was more like Pascal or real C in that it was a "pure" and rigidly defined form based on states as opposed to line numbers, a direct translation of math
s, and Bill Co. distorted it into the hideous beast littered with GOTOs and single letter variables we despise.
Anyway I'm prepared to defend VB (.NET) insofar is it's as good as C#. That's the official Redmond stand, execution speed is actually identical as it's all CLR anyway, and the language has had a complete overhaul with unsubtle Delphi influences, meaning it does everything C# does.
I always think of VB6 and before as VB "Classic" as, like the Coke variety, it's col
ourful, funky, addictive (though not due to crack drugs), and will probably be proven to cause bowel cancer.
FORTRAN was a cunning ruse to ensure their children would be employed fixing the millenium bug. We should do the same for ours. VB anyone?
