Subj : Re: BASIC turns 60 To : Mhansel739 From : mary4 Date : Fri Jun 21 2024 04:22:39 Mh> I found this article the other day - https://tinyurl.com/3hjc92ur Mh> It is about BASIC turning 60 this year. This the language a lot of us cut Mh> our teeth on and learned how to program in. How many posts have been Mh> written about modifying some BASIC code for a BBS or something else? The Mh> things we did back in the day with BASIC! We had to be smart in our Mh> programming, watching memory sizes and making sure we packed as much code Mh> on a line as we could. And the infamous GOTO and GOSUB commands - the Mh> creators of spaghetti code! Mh> Happy birthday BASIC! Mh> --Matt Mh> yooooo now its the time to learn basic! :D --mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast .... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64) * Origin: Datanet BBS | telnet://datanetbbs.net:23 (21:1/166) .