On 11/20/16, Andy Farkas <an...@andyit.com.au> wrote: > In a discussion about acronyms on IRC this weekend we brought up the BASIC > computer language. This link was posted, a great read, and brings back many > memories: "Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made > Computers > Personal" > > http://time.com/69316/basic/
Thanks for the link. A recent thread on HackADay also remembered the 8bit home computers and the BASIC language that served as intro to programming to a whole generation (my generation). My basic skills served me well into the mid-90s as well, first on the DOS era w MS BASIC PDS (Professional Development System) v8.1, a full blown ide and debugger -text mode, CUA menus,which generated fast EXEs. Then there was PowerBasic (the product still lives on). On the GUI era while evryone used MS VISUAL BASIC, I choose a different path: CA-Realizer 2.0. It was the first of many attempts during the 1990s to dethrone MSVB... including Oracle's PowerObjects and IBM's VisualAge for Basic... I go a bit into more detail in my HaD comment https://hackaday.com/2016/11/18/the-basic-issue-with-retro-computers/#comment-3278101 Just my $0.02 FC > > "And thus, a far higher fraction of students gained a little experience > fiddling > with 12-line programs that would make a pixel move…and thus knew, in > their gut, > that every dot on every screen obeyed an algorithm.” > > -andyf > > PS. I owned a copy of 101 BASIC Computer Games, and typed in many of them! > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
