Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:52

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On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:12:57 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:56:45 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>>
>> On 31/05/2018 17:37, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>
>>> I learned BASIC in 1971. Our textbook was the one by Kemeny and Kurtz.
>>
>> I did my 3rd year engineering assignments in 1972 in BASIC on the
>> teletypes of the PDP10 at Essex Uni, when we were all expected to do it
>> in FORTRAN as had been taught  :-)
> 
> Am probably too young. I first came in contact with BASIC when I had the
> Commodore 64 around 1983.

Gareth obviously failed to master FORTRAN.

Two years after him, I did my Master's on the same teletypes. We had to 
learn POP-2, Lisp, BCPL and some others. I used BCPL and FORTRAN for my 
dissertation, and learned/used PDP-10 assembler in my spare time!



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