Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Joe Pfeiffer
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 02:50

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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Also, could take you the rest of your life to figure out the code you
wrote last week...

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