Ask HN: What's a modern equivalent of QBASIC?

Re:Ask HN: What's a modern equivalent of QBASIC? by quickthrower2 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:58AM (#15371471)

Javascript isn't a bad bet. It's a complicated language for beginners (in comparison to BASICs) but you could teach a subset. `alert('hello');` is a nice start of course. You can just write your program in notepad, save with .html extension and you are done.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a modern equivalent of QBASIC? by hhhxyxyy on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:28PM (#15374841)

If current software language trends were dystopian then JavaScript would be the McDonald’s of languages. Fast but terrible for you.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a modern equivalent of QBASIC? by jamesmp98 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:51PM (#15374916)

But no matter how much you hate it, you always come back

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Re:Ask HN: What's a modern equivalent of QBASIC? by quickthrower2 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:05AM (#15376486)

Then you regret it as you endure extreme pain in the colon.

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