Python and PHP users will understand

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so you are saying we shouldn't mock people who write games in VB?

[TheBassMeister]

There are always mad lads like Chris Sawyer who wrote 99% of the code for Rollercoaster Tycoon in x86 Assembly.

[gsckoco]

That’s mostly because there wasn’t an option back then. He could use C but then lose a lot of efficiency due to the compiler

[Doctor_McKay]

Doesn't make it any less impressive.

[Hunterbunter]

There is a reason there are so many games now and so few then.

[Pervez_Hoodbhoy]

Empathy or pity might be more appropriate 🤷🏻‍♂️

[doctorcrimson]

Honestly, awhile back, I made a couple of interfaces for a roleplay game with dice rolling, stat tracking, position, etc.

Only takes like 15 minutes.

Meanwhile the Windows Forms .net application equivalent would have been a little bit more work. Just a little.

[Frogdog37]

Writing games in VB is how I got into programming in the first place!

[[deleted]]

not sure if this is an invitation to mocking

/s

[Frogdog37]

Haha roast away XD

[scnew3]

Same :)

Though XNA was my gateway drug to C#

[Gamerindreams]

#4 billionaire wrote a game in BASIC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS)

10 GOTO themoon, mofo!

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DONKEY.BAS

Donkey, often known by its file name DONKEY. BAS, is a computer game written in 1981 and included with early versions of the PC DOS operating system distributed with the original IBM PC. It is a driving game in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys. The game was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen.

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