What dialects of Basic do you "speak"?

[rinrin]

What the title says I'm not asking about all programming languages, just Basic.
This thread was inspired by the one on real languages, but will probably only be of interest to people over 30, my appologies to the rest^^;

My own list is rather short:
1. Commodore BASIC
2. QBasic

Sometimes I think one of the reasons why I like Ren'Py so much is because it reminds me of my early programming experiences... I remember spending hours and days trying to put together something that could have been a visual novel if I knew what a visual novel was at the time

[Greeny]

I don't think Basic is a very good language... But that's just me.

[rinrin]

I don't think Basic is a very good language... But that's just me.

I've never heard anybody say they think it's a good language, quite the opposite - programmers tend to despise it. So it's definitely not just you
But I still love it for what it is (actually, was) - a quick and easy way for amateurs to make computers do things.

[LVUER]

At first I use vb6, and now I use vb.net 2003 (sometimes 2005). But that just because job demand. Personally I prefer Delphi (Pascal).

I found that Basic is inconsistent, making me have to learn more than it should be... that's why I'm not really like it...

[PyTom]

I've used:

- Commodore Basic
- Qbasic/QuickBasic
- Some early version of VB, maybe even the first.

It's been over a decade and a half since I used any of them, though.

[RayRayTea]

I've used:
Commodore Basic
Amiga Basic (even wrote a short adventure game in it! I remember there was a puzzle where you had to poison a dog in order to get a knife and use it to cut a rope... so an item hanging from the ceiling would appear... somewhere? I was around 15 ^^;;)

If I had time / could, I'd like to try Basic on DS (examples, samples, video) just for fun.

[pondrthis]

Just VBA...

Or wait, isn't the programming language on TI-83s some form of Basic? (Checks Wikipedia) It's called TI-BASIC, so maybe!

[Agent Zero]

Hmm..
In elementary last few grades had mandatory QBasic ( I forgot 99% of it ).
Now second semester ; Turbo pascal 7.0 is mandatory on tech class. ( I can do basic things for people like maintaining the code \warning capslock ahead \

BUT IF IT RESPONDS WITH A ERROR 200 I'LL SPIT ON THE MONITOR

).
C++ becomes mandatory in Collage and I intend to use Unity 3 by end of this year :3
It would be nice to learn java ( will need it this summer ).

[Silvere]

It would be nice to learn java ( will need it this summer ).

Bah, screw Java. Can´t stand it anymore. Only motivation I got for it is Android-programming :/ .. Did Java for over 3 years and I don´t wanna see it anymore as the only "projects" I´m using it in are some for school ;_; (Especially printing. Oh gosh, PRINTING. *HATEHATE*) *HateHateHate* (ya´can apply the same thing to c .. Screw C! *HateHateHate* C#>Java>C *nods*)


~ Commodore Basic :3

[RayRayTea]

Actually... contrary to what I thought due to not using BASIC for so long, it seems BASIC can still be useful - I just took a cursory glance at BlitzMAX (60€), DarkBasic (?€)and PlayBasic (learning edition:free; pro 15€?) developing environments (which, unless I misunderstood something, are connected to BASIC) and they all look interesting and relatively alive.

The few BlitzMax-developed games I played were really smooth and felt solid, and it even has a very nice 3rd party IDE (the one I played with is free for lite, 75€ for full version). DarkBasic I didn't like that much mostly because I got the impression the guys that are selling it are scattered all over the place and there were too many things I wasn't interested on their site (3d stuff primarily). Also the DarkBasic games I played were a bit glitchy and one of them bluescreened my computer so I'm not interested in it anymore. Maybe I was just unlucky. PlayBasic is by far the least popular (their last competition attracted... two games) despite being the cheapest but it feels fast and simple. Looks like it doesn't have that many playable examples though.

Seems the guy behind BlitzMAX recently also wrote something called "Monkey" which is supposed to be similar to BlitzMAX but with the ability to export to all kinds of platforms (among others - html5, flash). Interesting stuff.

Edit: there's a site about various (mostly alive) Basics here:
http://www.basic.mindteq.com/index.php? ... &Itemid=56