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Article #623758Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:55
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:55
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Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On 02/06/2018 06:44, Charles Richmond wrote: >> >> 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. > Not really. For example the PL/M compiler was originally written in FORTRAN, but that's not the language most would choose today, nor COBOL. -- Pete
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