[elbybasolis]

After college I was doing some consulting and working on few very different projects. One of which was helping a company maintain an estimating program written by their founding engineer written in RMB. The software would prompt the user for various information and produce an estimate for labor, materials, equipment, and time.

It was pretty simple, well commented code, and for a while I was able to make small changes with a VM and HTBasic (http://www.techsoft.de/documents/htbasic.html). They weren't using any of the advanced features of the language. It was essentially a cli.

Eventually we ported it to TypeScript with a modern frontend. Now they can do estimates in the field and integrate it with loads of other software they adopted recently for invoicing, scheduling etc.