Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64
by mcphage on Sunday February 25, 2018 @09:51AM
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> the syntax looks similar to Java
Syntactical it is similar to java, although only the simplest Java. No generics, no inner classes, etc. And let’s face it, even at its most complicated, Java isn’t syntactically complicated.
> I wonder if it is really that easy to teach programming with this language?
Well, it’s been in use for a number of years, and is popular among non-traditional programmers, so the answer seems to be yes.
Syntactical it is similar to java, although only the simplest Java. No generics, no inner classes, etc. And let’s face it, even at its most complicated, Java isn’t syntactically complicated.
> I wonder if it is really that easy to teach programming with this language?
Well, it’s been in use for a number of years, and is popular among non-traditional programmers, so the answer seems to be yes.