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Article #623747Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:00
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:00
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On 01/06/2018 17:51, Bill Findlay wrote: >> BASIC (an acronym) is Beginner's All Purpose Instruction Code > > Bodgers' And SImpletons' Incomprehensible Crap Unfortunately true for it is possible to write spaghetti code in that style in any language, even C++ Who has not regretted setting someone on who claims 10 year's experience only to find that it was 1 week's experience repeated 519 times? :-(
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