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Article #623734Re: The birth of BASIC
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 02:46
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 02:46
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:06:54 -0700 (PDT), 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. At the time APL was like BASIC on steroids. Easy to learn, interactive, immensely capable, but could take the rest of your life to completely master. >In the business world, away from academia, COBOL was popular. >For the newly developed IBM System/3, RPG II was popular. > >
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