QuickBASIC

since 1985 (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1986)

Microsoft QuickBASIC (also QB or incorrectly, "QBasic", which is a different system) is an Integrated Development Environment (or IDE) and compiler for the BASIC programming language that was developed by Microsoft.

QuickBASIC runs mainly on DOS, though there was a short-lived version for Mac OS. It is loosely based on GW-BASIC but adds user-defined types, improved programming structures, better graphics and disk support and a compiler in addition to the interpreter. Microsoft marketed QuickBASIC as the introductory level for their BASIC Professional Development System.

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rah

codewritinfool

jdunck

UloPe

bmaxwell

RossP

audreyr

nathans

larry

patrick

rah - 1 years

codewritinfool - 10 years

jdunck - 5 years

UloPe - 7 years

bmaxwell - 36 years

RossP - 4 years

audreyr - 4 years

nathans - 5 years

larry - 29 years

patrick - 27 years

rah

1986

Built a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation simulator with it on a Compaq portable. No. Really.

codewritinfool

1986–1995

jdunck

1987–1991

My first programming - accidentally discovered magic logical stuff going on when I edited rather than ran a .bas file (IIRC). I could have sworn it was earlier than this, and on an Apple][+, but it was definitely a throwing-bananas artillery game. Wikipedia says gorilla.bas wasn't released until 1991, so perhaps I recall incorrectly.

bmaxwell

1989–

UloPe

1989–1995

RossP

1992–1995

Taught to me by the neighbours' babysitter! You can see that after messing about with QBasic for a little while I stopped coding until the world wide web came around and the era of 'CGI Scripts' began for me.

audreyr

1993–1996

nathans

1994–1998

My first exposure to programming. Had a blast writing text adventure games.

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