[HN Gopher] IntyBASIC: A Basic Compiler for Intellivision
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IntyBASIC: A Basic Compiler for Intellivision
Author : joemanaco
Score : 26 points
Date : 2025-06-29 05:17 UTC (3 days ago)
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| gxd wrote:
| Wonderful project.
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| Despite the great languages we have today, I still think that
| BASIC is among the best languages for sparking the love of
| programming in beginners.
| dlachausse wrote:
| I think Microsoft QBasic in particular was the sweet spot. It
| was an easy to pick up language and runtime that was powerful
| enough to make real productivity applications and games. It
| shipped with 2 great demo games, Nibbles and Gorillas, that
| were fun to play and easy to understand. It had a pretty good
| IDE and most importantly, easy to browse, beginner friendly
| online help. I couldn't imagine a better introduction to
| programming during my childhood. Best of all, it was installed
| by default in MS-DOS 5.0 and later.
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| I'm really hoping that it gets open sourced by Microsoft in the
| near future.
| pjmlp wrote:
| QuickBasic would be much better due to having a compiler.
|
| Turbo BASIC was also quite good, but Borland lost interest.
| bitwize wrote:
| After decades of thinking I was so much more 31337 by learning
| other languages -- OO, functional, etc. -- I can't help but
| agree. BASIC is the sweet spot for introducing what programming
| is and the fundamental concepts. I kind of laugh when I hear
| talk that LLMs will finally enable nontechnical people to build
| their own apps, when BASIC did that back in the 60s.
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