After several years of BASIC, I saved up and bought Watcom C++. At IIRC $600 (1995 dollars), it was literally the single largest purchase I’d ever made to date. As it turned out, I made a zillion-fold return on that particular investment, at least.
The first thing I did with it was port one of my simple 3D graphics demos from BASIC to C. My god the feeling of disbelief and raw power when it ran at like 1000 FPS.
The first thing I did with it was port one of my simple 3D graphics demos from BASIC to C. My god the feeling of disbelief and raw power when it ran at like 1000 FPS.