I started learning C++ in the summer (July or August) of 1998. I finally got a compiler, Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0, Standard Edition, in the December of that year.
A few years before that (circa 1996?), I looked at QBASIC and thought it was way too complex after looking at its help file. I did not learn one keyword of QBASIC then.
I haven't learned QBASIC as many people might learn QBASIC. I can easily go through most QBASIC and understand it without any previous knowledge of QBASIC's syntax or lexicon (knowing C++ can do that to you). A quick look at some short example code in the help file allowed me to immediately immitate a CALL ABSOLUTE procedure. (I also have a small knowledge of Intel 80x86 assembly.) I just typed some assembly into DEBUG.EXE and had it dumped as machine code. That was what I needed for the DATA part, which was READ in, then poked into an array, etc.
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