Why I Like the BASIC Programming Language

[@kevin12567]

I have a couple BASIC-like programing languages for Nintendo Switch. One is SmileBASIC, which feels a lot like old-school BASIC (but runs orders of magnitude faster), and the other is FUZE 4 Switch, which is a lot like C, but can also be programmed like traditional BASIC if you want.

[@HE360]

WOW, that's very cool to know Kevin. I didn't know that the Nintendo Switch runs BASIC. I'm actually going to try to search for those and try those out. A version of BASIC that works with the Nintendo Switch is very very interesting to news for me.

[@cbbcbb6803]

Thank you! People can write very very sophisticated programs in basic. These can be all types of applications: games, scientific, business management, and many more categories. I like basic too. In python, spaces, tabs, and line feeds are like invisible reserved words. Brackets and semicolons are inexcusable. Lots of perfectly good languages do not have them.

[@FaithfulComforter]

What are those programming languages?

[@yoidog]

I'm a C++ intermediate and i agree on what you say for BASIC, i use FreeBASIC i'm kind of a beginner at it though, programming in FreeBASIC just feels old, i always dreamed about BASIC, FreeBASIC is my 2nd language and i'm proud of it, this video inspired me to master my FreeBASIC skills, thank you.

[@Merlin64-nb1tj]

I could not agree more with everything you said. I started with basic on the C64.

[@iandavidson99]

I use PureBASIC on Windows... It's incredibly powerful and compiles, so incredibly fast. Really not sure why I'd want to use anything else!

[@johnschuster1770]

Thanks for the video. The first "college computer course" that I took was 1977, Intro to Data Processing. It was focused on binary and hexadecimal systems. We also worked with punch cards. The following year I took some courses in BASIC. Loved it. But that was it far as my programming career went. Now I sit back and enjoy other programmers' efforts. Whatever happened to the original Nintendo Dungeons and Dragons?

[@menacerisamir198]

in the 80 i was learning basic with apple 2 and after with msx computer and c64 and i got all this books , this is great now i i am learning dark basic for game guru max , people think that i am nut , but BASIC is really what i like much of all , other guys with c++ are just a bunch of guy who want to show off

[@HE360]

I agree!

[@nameless5724]

Why I like BASIC? The short answer is: " I am old school ".

[@davidgagnon3781]

Did YOU make all the games in BASIC? Wow!

[@HE360]

I made many of my first games in BASIC and the very last game in this video was made in a BASIC styled language. I'd say it was made in BASIC under a name called "Cerberus X"

[@HistLoveRadio]

Basically, BASIC is one of the easiest programming languages to learn. Where we literally killed the BASIC language was in the mid-80s, because the problem with that language at the time was that it was interpreted, plus there were a lot of limitations that weren't available at the time. For example STRING type variables were often limited to 255 characters, and sometimes less due to very little ram memory available. It forced us to think differently. But today, since we have adopted new standards, we have simply evolved with languages like C++ or Java for example. Fortunately, a handful of computer engineers had the brilliant idea of reviving this language by bringing what it didn't have at the start, that is to say the speed and power of C++ in an easy-to-learn language. without worrying. Yes, I like FreeBasic which I find powerful in every way, and in addition it is even possible to write software from libraries originally designed for C and C++. Thank you for this video, because I'm not the only one programming in BASIC.

[@bjbell52]

I learned BASIC on my first computer, an Atari 400. I guess Atari BASIC (called AB in the rest of this post) was different from the other home computer BASICS because it wasn't written by Microsoft. The computer magazines at the time had many articles explained why AB was so much weaker than MS BASIC, to the point that the owner of the company that wrote AB wrote an article in Compute Magazine PROVING that if one used the features of AB instead of trying to bend AB to be programmed like MS BASIC, one could write better programs. AB lost most of the speed tests like Sieve of Eratosthenes despite the 6502 in the Atari being clocked 79% faster than the Apple or Commodore. This was always because Atari wanted their BASIC to fit into an 8K cartridge and they did so by NOT writing a decent math package but instead, using the crappy package built into the operating system. Someone rewrote AB but created its own math package that ended up over 5 times faster than AB. It also should have been faster because NOT interpreted at run time but was COMPILED into P-Code. Add to that that string variables could be as long as memory permitted. It also used long variable names where every character was significant, making programs easier to read. My first professional program was an animated volleyball game for Softside Magazine. It was written in 100% AB (no machine language calls) and used 4 animated sprites for players and 1 for the ball. If you want to see the program you can download it here "www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-volleyball_26.html"

[@NOPerative]

BASIC! I think BASIC needs to be mandatory. I like BASIC, C and Assembler. I prefer FreeBasic because it compiles - I like executable file formats.

[@GothGuy885]

I still Code in Basic Also, I first learned it way back in HS on an Apple II-E. My dad bought me a TI99-4A for a graduation present, that I coded on for a while. now I use Liberty Basic on a windows 10 system. it has a GUI interface, But I am just starting to Learn how to do graphics a little, because the programs I do Mostly involve Data processing [ Gathering/ Storing Data to /Reading it from the drive, and displaying it on Screen ] so graphics don't matter that much to me Right now, but its fine, and works for me 😀

[@mmbeque]

The language in which first Apple computer program was written in

[@waynefreeman7167]

Dude, you are spot on. 👍

[@lawlit450]

Now i am in 10th yesterday I found my 7th std Information and technology book at that time i didn't have much intrest in it because my teachers way of teaching made me sleepy and that book contain information about BASIC language vairbles ,if else ,loops,etc so I am started to learn it my so I started learning it I already learned some core python and HTML and CSS (HTML and CSs are not programming languages I know) and I watched this for some motivation thx for it

[@symone9746]

i really want to make a game with BASIC! what programme did you use? are there any tutorials out there?

[@thesqueakingrat8269]

how do I download it?

[@gfabasic32]

Impressive!

[@YTrandomusr24]

Awesome 👍 I'm a big fan of Qbasic and I'm starting to use FreeBasic as well!

[@LetsPumpItUp]

You gotta love the GOTO statement of BASIC language ❤ lol

[@thegreenhoodieguy]

I wanted to start programming in Basic, but I don't know what to download. Can you help me with that?

[@JosipRetroBits]

Try with QB64

[@billy7636]

suggest a basic interpreter for windows 10 64 bit to download

[@marysharmila8121]

You can try Vintage Basic

[@anon_y_mousse]

I started with QBasic, and I still love it, but I would never call BASIC a bracket-less programming language. Just like with Pascal, a squiggly symbol is replaced with a keyword. However, you can do the same thing in those other languages. For instance, in C, and technically also C++ but I'm going to ignore it, you can do #define begin { #define end } and then no more "brackets". There are worse things I could show you, but that's probably too much for a single comment.

[@stuntfax9004]

So with basic you can’t make a high end resolution games with basic or no?

[@x7heDeviLx]

Was it the first language u really got good at or took time to understand?

[@astongoldsmith2396]

That is great man,I like it ...and i like BASIC....far better than python!!!

[@HE360]

I agree. I like how with BASIC has a lot of freedom to where we're not locked into a system. But, we could code our projects and not worry about a lot of extra stuff.

[@astongoldsmith2396]

@@HE360 Yes i agree....and i also hate all this un-natural hype about python which is presented as allmighty ...which is not in most cases ..it is damn slow and ugly un-human lang.

[@HE360]

I agree. With Python, having to worry about indentations and getting errors for not indenting gets annoying after a while; especially when code gets long vs. a language like BASIC, I get to just program my games, etc. and not have to worry about that stuff.

[@basicforge]

Python might be a powerful language but it also has steeper requirements than BASIC, and it's more complicated.

[@agentslimepunk]

Lately I kind of dig Lua for gamedev, but I don't really have much of a preference these days, myself. Nice video :)

[@user4gent416]

Its the language that Linus(The project manager and developer of Linux) learned first.

[@basicforge]

Elon Musk also.

[@mmbeque]

Zuckerberg too

[@totally_fitz]

Flashback to The Legend of Zelda. Gotta go find it now 🏃‍♀️

[@brunosouza2918]

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[@AloanMoreira1]

is basic even easier than python to memorize and understand?

[@GothGuy885]

yes very. I still code in basic. I have a hard time getting my head around all this Data Stream stuff 'in some of the other languages like Python. the data stream thing makes it sound like a pregnancy test. :Just hold your Laptop in your Urine stream. 😆

[@AloanMoreira1]

@@GothGuy885great to know! I remember I used to like basic back in the 80s without even ever coding it, but just because it sounded simple in its own wording and its description haha.. so what is the name of the Basic being used in this video at: 3:18 if you happen to know since there are so many flavors

[@GothGuy885]

@@AloanMoreira1 sorry, not familiar with that one

[@dragon90815]

😊

[@brunosouza2918]

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[@nedotraxxxx]

They invented so called "modern programming languages" like JavaScript and then (just 30 years after) suggested to get back into C 🙂BASIC could replace the most of contemporary interpreted and embedded languages, yep 😉

[@brunosouza2918]

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