Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : Dr. What
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 08:03:29

-=> tenser wrote to Dr. What <=-

 te> Yeah.  A lot of folks who self-taught themselves BASIC
 te> on 8 and 16 bit micros picked up better practices, but
 te> they were in such a constrained environment it was hard
 te> for them take advantage of more advanced structures.

But I was always "I need to keep these X things together.  That's cumbersome in
BASIC."  When I got to college and Pascal, I loved the "record".

So I think that many of us were already thinking along the correct lines in
BASIC.  We just needed to be exposed to something more advanced.


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