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Subject: Re: Back & Forth - The effects of nuclear weapons
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:58:50 +1100
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On 12/02/2025 2:12 pm, David Meyer wrote:
> Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> What do you do when you want to preserve a thirty year old spaghetti code BASIC
>> program? Of course, if you have no intention whatsoever to maintain it, you
>> could of course just use a compatible interpreter. Or you could do it the hard
>> way by trying to analyze it and port it to Forth.
> 
> Scary application domain, but a cool project combining retro-programming
> with BASIC and Forth!

You know things are bad when Dr. Strangelove is the advisor-in-chief.