Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:27

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On 02/06/2018 06:44, Charles Richmond wrote:
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> On the DEC-20, BASIC Plus 2 had a lot of enhancements to plain BASIC.  I 
> never used it much, but some I knew at university did fairly complex 
> projects using this BASIC.
> 

Yes, but save from some contextual limitations (execution speed,
storage space, etc) to a well designed project, the implementation
language is irrelevant.

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