Posted by Cube on Thursday, September 17, 2009

I'm sure the answer from almost all the original Visual BASIC programmers would be "Not if I have anything to say about it." Unfortunately it's largely not up to us and future programemrs won't know what the original BASIC language looked like. I still remember those days of GW BASIC and Quick BASIC. There's nothing quite like the old coding methods. I can't say I really want to go back there but I am finding dot net to be such a different language that it's insulting to call it basic.

Sample BASIC program from the 1980's

5 REM Find the even numbers between 1 and 10
6 REM Written by Cube of the HighTechHangout.Com
10 Dim X as Integer
20 Cls
30 For X = 1 To 10
40 If (X / 2) = Int(X / 2) Then
50 Print X + " is an even number!"
60 End If
70 Next X
80 End