Great programmers don't just happen !
Basic ! Oh, how foolish one must be to use such an old fashioned language, right ? Wrong ! It is time to put to rest the idea that Basic is old fashioned, obsolete and a dead programming language. Not your fathers Basic. Basic has come a long way since the days of GW-Basic or QBasic. It has changed. It
Read moreSome may wonder, why do I use Powerbasic ? There are a lot of Basic compilers available on the internet developed by independent developers or small companies, but none have ever come close to what I get from Powerbasic. I have looked into FreeBasic, PureBasic, XBasic, RealBasic, IBasic, CreativeBasic and others, but none have come close to what I get
Read moreI was playing around with the 64 bit Windows 8 Preview build today and decided to check out Visual Basic as part of Visual Studio 11, which comes with the 64 bit build. What ever happened to coding ? It was like landing on a different planet ! I was a Basic programmer in another galaxy which had absolutely no
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