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  • BASIC turns 60

    From Mhansel739@21:3/171 to All on Thu May 16 06:27:48 2024
    I found this article the other day - https://tinyurl.com/3hjc92ur
    It is about BASIC turning 60 this year. This the language a lot of us cut
    our teeth on and learned how to program in. How many posts have been
    written about modifying some BASIC code for a BBS or something else? The
    things we did back in the day with BASIC! We had to be smart in our programming, watching memory sizes and making sure we packed as much code
    on a line as we could. And the infamous GOTO and GOSUB commands - the
    creators of spaghetti code!
    Happy birthday BASIC!
    --Matt

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  • From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to Mhansel739 on Sun May 19 12:53:12 2024
    I found this article the other day - https://tinyurl.com/3hjc92ur
    It is about BASIC turning 60 this year. This the language a lot of us cut our teeth on and learned how to program in.

    Me too! :) GW-BASIC in DOS was my early platform, with a bit of Apple BASIC and anything else I got my hands on that had a BASIC interpreter in the 80s.

    The "learning computers for kids" books from the 80s were a source of a lot of BASIC programs I tried, some of which even ran correctly in GW-BASIC (instead of Commodore or Spectrum or whatever other system the book was originally written for). Good memories!

    The Usborne computer books are available for free download as PDF, with gems like "Practise Your BASIC":
    https://usborne.com/ca_en/books/computer-and-coding-books

    A few years back I wrote a BASIC interpreter that ran on Atmel AVR chips (ATmega), complete with line numbers, a fun project. I have actually ended up using pieces of that project many times over the years since then. It's a long time since I wrote BASIC code but certainly the language has served me well.

    And the infamous GOTO and GOSUB commands - the
    creators of spaghetti code!

    I can appreciate a good GOTO.

    Happy birthday BASIC!

    Cheers!


    Chris/akacastor

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  • From mary4@21:1/166 to Mhansel739 on Fri Jun 21 04:22:39 2024
    I found this article the other day - https://tinyurl.com/3hjc92ur
    It is about BASIC turning 60 this year. This the language a lot of us cut our teeth on and learned how to program in. How many posts have been written about modifying some BASIC code for a BBS or something else? The things we did back in the day with BASIC! We had to be smart in our programming, watching memory sizes and making sure we packed as much code on a line as we could. And the infamous GOTO and GOSUB commands - the creators of spaghetti code!
    Happy birthday BASIC!
    --Matt


    yooooo now its the time to learn basic! :D

    --mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

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