bboy_sonik Wrote:QBASIC.. i started using BASIC (the original itteration of it) on my Amiga as a child. I mate a horse racing game.

Visual Basic is actually nothing like QBASIC or BASIC. amzter, check our DarkBASIC. Think QBASIC... 10 years newer, and OpenGL. It was an expansion of BASIC/QBASIC for the modern gaming industry. But its not just for games.

I'm not a veteran programmer, but i know BASIC like the back of my hand. And please, don't say its a programming language. It's an INERPRETED SCRIPTING LANGUAGE technically. Saying its a programming language won't be friendly to noobies... cause they think its a good beginner language for starting REAL programming but its NOT. Its called BASIC for a reason... lol well its really {Quick} Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. But its just too archaic for todays modern requirements in software, if you want to do anything revolutionary/fancy anyway. Unless you want to make games in DarkBASIC :P

Although Visual Basic is technically interpreted, it has all the necessary language features to be a "programming language"/fully compiled code, and thus, you can consider it a programming language.  Plus it lacks many of the features available in scripting languages, such as the eval() function.  VBA, however, is definitely scripting (and does have the Eval() function).

(This post was last modified: 14/12/2007 02:49 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)