Subj : Re: Is BASIC to be regarded as less than reputable prog lang?
To   : Nightfox
From : Malvinas
Date : Sun Jul 07 2024 21:14:55

 Ni> (...)  BASIC stands for
 Ni> Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code - "Beginner's" being
 Ni> the key word.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

IIRC, when Borland bought it, they changed the "Basic" word to "Borland's"... and published a version accompanied by a compiler that could produce .exe files... I believe it was BASIC 4.7.
I *always* thought BASIC not to be "basic", or "beginner's language", despite the name or the fame it had (and seems it still has).
If you try, you'll find amazing things done in BASIC and in other "languages" aswel, like "an .mp3 player in .bat batch file format"... crazy things like that, you couldn't believe it's possible but someone has done it.
You know, kinda the spirit of this whole '80ish's computer scene' thing was using something not for what it was intended to, but for what you meant it to do...
I know, I kinda go all the way dogmatic when posing a statement by BASIC's side.

Malvinas.

Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas!

.... Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas.

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