08-13-2003, 07:27 AM
Nathan, I wish you wouldn't use the term "real languages" when referring to languages other than Basic. I have done many, many "real" applications as recently as last year that were written in QuickBasic. Over the course of the last 20 years I have used various versions of Basic for the following:
* Bank alarm monitoring systems.
* A system for connecting a bank to NACHA (National Clearing House Association) for cash concentration, saving millions of dollars in float.
* Manufacturing system with bills of material, parts explosions and implosions, etc.
* Bills Purchase banking system that handled transactions for $70 million dollars a day.
* Multiuser Human Resource system.
* Utility programs for a LAN with 6 file servers conected to a mainframe and serving 100 users.
* A complete ERP system consisting of 1500 realtime programs running in 5 countries.
* A herd management system and an inventory system for a major dairy farm with a herd of over 1500 cows.
Have you ever heard of PIckBasic or UniBasic? The ERP system which I mentioned above is written in this language under a multivalued database. There are 3 million users of this language. It's considered an old, legacy system, but it's still out there.
So please don't be negative when you refer to Basic. Lot's of people make negative remarks about Cobol as well, forgetting that there are more Cobol programs in trhe world than of any other language.
Gee I'm glad I got that off my chest!
* Bank alarm monitoring systems.
* A system for connecting a bank to NACHA (National Clearing House Association) for cash concentration, saving millions of dollars in float.
* Manufacturing system with bills of material, parts explosions and implosions, etc.
* Bills Purchase banking system that handled transactions for $70 million dollars a day.
* Multiuser Human Resource system.
* Utility programs for a LAN with 6 file servers conected to a mainframe and serving 100 users.
* A complete ERP system consisting of 1500 realtime programs running in 5 countries.
* A herd management system and an inventory system for a major dairy farm with a herd of over 1500 cows.
Have you ever heard of PIckBasic or UniBasic? The ERP system which I mentioned above is written in this language under a multivalued database. There are 3 million users of this language. It's considered an old, legacy system, but it's still out there.
So please don't be negative when you refer to Basic. Lot's of people make negative remarks about Cobol as well, forgetting that there are more Cobol programs in trhe world than of any other language.
Gee I'm glad I got that off my chest!