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Article #623761Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 17:32
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 17:32
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On 02/06/2018 17:26, Andrew Swallow wrote: > On 02/06/2018 12:27, Gareth's Downstairs Computer 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. >> >> > If the computer language cannot handle character you soon hit problems. All the languages with which I've been involved from the very lowest to PASCAL and FORTRAN, had an inalienable capability to deal with all forms of data having binary representations. You don't hit a problem if you need a couple of hours' work to turn in string handling capabilities; after all, the C language has no string handling facilities, and relies on a string library, and, usually, a CHAR data type defined in terms of its binary size and signing.
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