QBasic
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I too had my life changed by how convenient and complete QBASIC's help feature was.”
“It’s a love letter to everyone who learned to program on Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters in the ’80s and early ’90s.”
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“which was also a great thing about QBasic”
“I'll introduce game programming to him using QBASIC.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I've spent the last 6 months building a similar 1:1 faithful recreation of QBASIC and QuickBasic 4.5”
I’m working on a 100% faithful adaptation of both QBasic and QuickBasic 4.5 that runs entirely in the browser running on a virtual CPU and hardware abstraction layer. It’s a love letter to everyone who learned to program on Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters in the ’80s and early ’90s. The whole project is fully open source. The best compliment I’ve received so far is from friends who grew up in the same era I did: when
Threads where it came up
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Also written as QBASIC. Data: qbasic.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“I too had my life changed by how convenient and complete QBASIC's help feature was.”
“It’s a love letter to everyone who learned to program on Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters in the ’80s and early ’90s.”
“which was also a great thing about QBasic”
“I used to write Qbasic on DOS boxes”
“I'll introduce game programming to him using QBASIC.”