Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:26

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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.

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