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Why classic Visual Basic needs to be rebuilt from scratch and brought back for a new generation

September 15, 2016 Chris Boss

“We need more coders”, “Everybody needs to learn to code”, “Coding should be a basic requirement in education”, …. Have you heard or read comments similar to these ? What does this have to do with classic Visual Basic ? BASIC and the hobby programmer Why won’t BASIC just die and go away ? Probably most programmers today think this,

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Getting started with the PowerBasic compiler – Part 1

March 23, 2016 Chris Boss

This series of articles is about getting started in using the PowerBasic Windows native code compiler. It is a tutorial about what the compiler is for and how it is used to write desktop applications, as well as standard Windows DLLs usable by other languages like C. A little history. For programmers who have been around for awhile, they may

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