Newbie Language Poll

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

How about Logo?

[iago]

That doesn't even count.

[Etheran]

QBasic because that is where I started.

[K]

Java (free SDK)
C# (free command-line tools)
Python (free IDE, the works)  
C++ (free IDE and GCC)
(etc)

Just as a quick note, there is at least one free IDE for C#: SharpDev.

[Mesiah / haiseM]

qbasic has become quite a powerfull language actually. Incredibly slow and un-reliable, but with its latest features and such, you can do alot more than you would think..

I wrote an entire operating system  in qb on my friends old Apple, it took about a week.

the relationship between qbasic and visual basic, is no doubt directly linked, especially with the use of the .bas file extention, duhhh.

But I kinda like Delphi, it has an uber sexy ide, and not everything is done for you in some points, unlike vb..

GOGO DELPHI!!

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Ew, you did not seriously write an OS in QB.

[Hitmen]

No, the link between QBasic and Visual Basic would be the word BASIC: Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or something like that.

[ObsidianWolf]

Add ActionScript?

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Add ActionScript?

NO.

hehe, some kid in my compsci class thinks he's leeter than me because he knows ActionScript.

ActionScript is just JavaScript with the "on" syntax construct.

[vile]

Add Pascal. Pascal is a good newbie language.

Btw, I doubt you could write an actual OS using QB. Maybe an OS emulator, but not an actual OS with a bootloader, and all that shit. The language is too high-level.

[Skywing]

Add Pascal. Pascal is a good newbie language.

Btw, I doubt you could write an actual OS using QB. Maybe an OS emulator, but not an actual OS with a bootloader, and all that shit. The language is too high-level.

I don't think you'd be able to write a bootloader in pure C either, at least for x86...

[iago]

Perhaps he invented his own architecture which natively runs Basic instead of assembly?