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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: 20 Nov 2024 19:02:07 GMT
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:10:39 -0800, John Ames wrote:

> 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...

When the company I worked for bought an IBM 5120 I was drafted to develop 
an inventory control system. The 5120 had two choices for languages, APL 
and BASIC as well as a bastard offspring of RPG called BRADS which was in 
BASIC.