Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 13:07

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On 02/06/2018 12:55, Peter Flass wrote:
> 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.
> 

The language chosen does not dissipate its irrelevance.

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