Although these days i tend to use Lazarus directly.Дў. I originally wrote it because up to that point i used QBasic in DOSBox now and then to try out algorithms and i wanted something similar running natively. SimSAL Workshop, made years ago using a scripting language (SimSAL) i wrote at some point in Lazarus. Over the years i made a few languages and environments for fun that included exactly that sort of low 'zero to pixels' idea, mainly inspired by QBasic:ДЎ. If someone were to design a programming language with a learning curve as gentle as Qbasic, and wrap a simple IDE and graphics library around it, all while modernising some of its more dubious qualities.you'd have a real shot at recapturing the magic for a new generation of young programmers. I don't quite think QB64 fills it, being little more than a nostalgic, artistic homage to Qbasic. Yuck! And so they lose interest, believing programming is the mysterious and complex domain of gods. If a beginner wanted to do anything 'cool-looking' today, this same beginner programmer would need to set up render to texture on an OpenGL surface. Qbasic wrapped an IDE and graphics library around the language in an all-in-one solution it was so cool seeing colourful, pseudo-graphical demos like Nibbles or Gorillas. There's no easy way to do anything other than text from the command line, which makes for some thoroughly uninteresting demos and examples. It involves setting up a large toolchain, and for a beginner, the experience is daunting as the language community reviled both anything imperative and unstructured. Learning programming today isn't quite as simple as it was with Qbasic. It was an excellent educational tool, an excellent way to get kids 'hooked' into 'real programming'. Eventually, you'd grow out of it and try your hand at C, because by that point you were encouraged to learn so much (and with a gentle curve) that you exhausted its capabilities. It had the tools to expand along as you learned, and a great community of amateurs who would make cool games with it.

It started very simple, PRINT and GOTO were enough to get you started. Qbasic is something that simply has no modern-day parallel.

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