Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:22

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On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 9:16:07 AM UTC-6, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:

> I knew that, so what did I type?

You left out the word "Symbolic", as I thought was clear as I quoted and 
attributed correctly: you wrote "Beginner's All Purpose Instruction Code".

Perhaps, too, it would be clearer as "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction 
Code" so that "purpose" is neither a separate word nor capitalized.

John Savard

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