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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
It always amuses me the number of budding programers that run Basic in its many forms down as a programming language.
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I can assure you that many professional programmers and computer scientists feel the same way
C is also a terrible language for writing large scale systems. C++ sucks big time too unless used with great discipline and expertise. All languages have strengths and weaknesses, domains where they work well and domains where they don't. Visual Basic is damn fine for writing small Windows GUI applications, but I wouldn't want to write an operating system, a web browser or an accounting system in it.
Actually, I wouldn't want to write an accounting system in any language. That's why I've spent most of my professional life working on system software and embedded systems
Getting back to the original topic, I do agree that Gambas looks like it could be a decent tool for building small astronomy applications if you're a hobbyist programmer.
PS. BASIC is not a good language for scientific programming either. You need well defined floating point arithmetic for that.
Cheers,
Rick.