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anonymous · Answer

What are the disadvantages of BASIC programming language?

rsmith6559 · Answer

BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Interactive Code.  It was written at Dartmouth University in 1964 to teach beginning Comp Sci students how to program on mainframe terminals.  There are many parts that show a Fortran influence.  It really wasn't written to be a production language.

anonymous · Answer

So an disadvantage is that it wasn't written to be a production language...
Right?

rsmith6559 · Answer

First, we're talking BASIC, not Visual Basic, right?  The last I worked with BASIC was with my Commodore 64.  I've had to work with VB a couple of times.  VB is object oriented, AFAIK, BASIC isn't.  I don't know if BASIC has any GUI extensions.  Heck, I don't know if it's been updated in 30 years.

IMO, VB is an ugly language without technical merit that I can see.  It's main claim to fame was that it gave mediocre programmers a choice 15 years ago.  It's known to be hard to manage when programs get over 10,000 lines.