Assembly is the force. C++ is the dark side.
Whaaaaa ... you've got to be eff'ing kidding me! Now you've gone too far!
Coding in C++ isn't that different from coding in Blitz ... save for the fact that you've got total control on basically every computer that exists. Sure ... there aren't commands for every single thing out there ... well actually that's not even true. If you wanted to you could easily scrap together a library of free resources that probably does everything in C++ that Blitz does and then the two really wouldn't be all that different.
If your aim is only to make home computer based games ... then I say fine BASIC rocks especially Blitz. However, if you want to step up and control your game's destiny you've got to use C++ as the backbone.
CallOfDutyBASIC or whatever - which in most cases is a greatly simplified form of BASIC for idiots that is much higher level
Hmmm... you know most script languages are similar to BASIC in their power ... however they have often times greater functionality and are more like C than BASIC. To top it off you can totally add whatever you want to the scripting language because you've got the C++ source to it. Also you don't need to compile it in the same manner as BASIC ... anyone can just open up a script file and change it.
Sorry man ... I like ... no I love BASIC but I crave more. C++ is more!
BTW I'm going to kill this thread eventually!