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Article #623687Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:19
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:19
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On 01/06/2018 22:57, Peter Flass wrote: > <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: >> On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 7:25:24 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote: >> >>> It was available on the mainframe at UofF in 1973 when I had my first >>> exposure to computers, but we also had APL, so BASIC kind of >>> languished. >> >> BASIC timesharing was an excellent language, especially as HP and >> others expanded it in the 1970s, but it was still looked down >> upon by serious programmers. "Real programmers" were supposed >> to use Fortran or assembler in that era. APL was credible, too. > > I always thought of BASIC as "poor man's FORTRAN." > The writers of BASIC obviously knew FORTRAN. They chose GOTOs over blocks.
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