Post 137566 by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
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(DIR) Post #137557 by ieure@mastodon.social
2018-09-22T15:13:19Z
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BASIC gets a lot of shit, but its ability to trivially manipulate hardware and ability to bootstrap LOWER level code are things modem languages could stand to learn from.
(DIR) Post #137565 by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2018-09-22T15:14:17Z
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@ieure it’s a also a great exercise for an intermediate level programmer to write a basic interpreter
(DIR) Post #137566 by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
2018-09-22T15:14:18Z
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@ieure I can't smash the boost button hard enough on this one
(DIR) Post #137568 by ieure@mastodon.social
2018-09-22T15:14:27Z
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Not to mention that many BASIC programming books are very clear about the existence of ML and give you idea of the advantages & disadvantage of using it.
(DIR) Post #137705 by libgrog@mastodon.social
2018-09-22T15:26:13Z
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@ieure I've never seen someone bash BASIC. It's an awesome language. Now MS Visual Basic is garbage.
(DIR) Post #137708 by Kangar00@mastodon.cloud
2018-09-22T15:26:27Z
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@ieure I was expecting a content warning.All those years of mucking through business basic code and porting that stuffs to an HP UX 9000 Interpreter left a dark hole in my heart.I can feel the void sucking at my brain again.AaaaaaahThe voices are back.GOSUB! GOSUB!
(DIR) Post #137807 by Fahrenheit@mastodon.social
2018-09-22T15:35:27Z
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@ieure BASIC is great, it came with computers that were meant to create, not consume.
(DIR) Post #138909 by drwho@mastodon.social
2018-09-22T17:23:26Z
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@ieure You're absolutely right. Commands like POKE, PEEK, and SYS made it so easy to do interesting things, and I don't think any other language does those things even half as intuitively.