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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:10:39 -0800
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 03:37:58 -0500
"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

> Hmmmmmmmm ... how many now have EVER programmed in BASIC ? Should do
> a survey .....

Lord, who hasn't!? Well, probably depends on how you choose to qualify
it - we still use VB6 in-house at $EMPLOYER, and FreeBASIC is my go-to
for hacking together quick utility applications in daily life, but I
haven't touched old-school line-number spaghetti-Gotoese BASIC since
childhood, and certainly never built any application of real complexity
with it. Bet more than a few people here have, though, especially if we
cross-posted over to a.f.computers...