Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:57

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<hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 7:25:24 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
> 
>> It was available on the mainframe at UofF in 1973 when I had my first
>> exposure to computers, but we also had APL, so BASIC kind of
>> languished.
> 
> BASIC timesharing was an excellent language, especially as HP and
> others expanded it in the 1970s, but it was still looked down
> upon by serious programmers.  "Real programmers" were supposed
> to use Fortran or assembler in that era.  APL was credible, too.

I always thought of BASIC as "poor man's FORTRAN."

-- 
Pete

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