Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:59

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On 6/1/2018 10:22 AM, Quadibloc wrote:
> 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.
> 

ISTM that the word "BASIC" was a backronym...  meaning that they started 
with the word BASIC and then figured out the phrase it stood for later on.



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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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From: Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com>
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