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Which BASIC are you talking about though, this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Programming

OK, so that is probably NOT what you meant, but seriously, there is some really good coin to be made in BASIC programming and I'm not talking just for the Trash80, C64 and Timex Sinclair.

Try this company to start, http://www.osas.com/
They have great accounting products based on Business BASIC, http://www.basis.com/

Programming in the accounting field "was" very lucrative for me.
WAS, because it was not my dream life to sit in a chair and stare at alpha numeric characters spilling down my screen like the Matrix all day long. Now I'm retired on a sailboat, living the life of a pirate, pun intended.

Oh, and just to be pedantic, BASIC is an acronym, Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, as you surely know.
Putting "Basic" on your resume may create some "semantic noise" for the reviewer.

And one last thing, you might consider moving on up the ladder,
With your grey hair and overall experience, you are sure to land a job as a "Consultant" and still get to program.
Differences between programmer and consultant explained here http://namingexception.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/dont-be-a-programmer-be-a-consultant/

Their product isn't even called BBx anymore. They call it BBj so I don't understand why their customers would be confused. http://www.basis.com/bbj

This is going to cost RIM money. BBX, Business Basic eXtended, was a bigger deal 20 years ago than it is now, but it still has some user base. 3 letters, though, are a weak trademark, unless very well known. For a rather lame choice of letters, though, this was dumb.

Apple had to settle with Cisco over "IPhone"'; Cisco did in fact have a VoIP phone system called that. Apple over the years had to pay off McIntosh Amplifiers and Apple Records (both notable brands in the 1960s). Apple had a second round of trouble when they moved into the music industry, and had to pay out even more money to Apple Records.

General Motors got into trouble with Beretta (GM: cars, Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta: guns), and settled that one relatively inexpensively.

BBX (BASIS International) is also a BASIC derivative, also used for business applications and hasits own database, albeit a flat-file like (and you would also be surprized what companies/systems are running on it).

Or in Objective Oberon with an object orientated design, or perl, or c, or c++, or shell with awk and sed.
i suppose if you are a real glutton you could use assembler *shakes head*

actually a language with excellent string manipulation is also Business Basic (Basis Business Basic or ProvideX Basic)

pick your favorite language
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http://www.deja.com/forms/nuke.shtml

Simple as that.

Sure , today they're only adding links, but on the basis of all the arguments saying Deja.com is doing an OK thing, what's to stop them from doing more?

Right... and teenage smoking leads to crack babies. It's a damn hyperlink. Big deal.