I'm a huge fan. I used to volunteer on allexperts.com to help people with QBasic stuff, before the dawn of stackoverflow and other probably more searchable places.
This is wonderful, and i'll have to check it out!
This is wonderful, and i'll have to check it out!
- Basic had existed even before displays and keyboards were popular, so many software developers from that era could appreciate it.
- Microsoft included QBasic 1.1 for free with some of their operating systems.
- All things considered, it was fairly compatible (depending on what the code did) with GWBasic and even basic/basica from old IBM terminals.
- The language was also easy to understand which made it ideal for education
Probably among other points, this brought a pretty large and diverse group of people who loved programming together.