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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:30:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 02:48 this Thursday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 21:05 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> 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...
>>>
>>> Given the typical age of most posters here, I'd say nearly every one 
>>> of us has written /something/ in one or more of the 75 different 
>>> variants of "BASIC" that have existed over time.
>> 
>> I haven't
>
> Which would make you a member of the remainder of "nearly every" (which 
> does not encompass "all").
>
> It would also imply that you /may/ be one of the younger members posting 
> in the group.


Yeah, probably one of the youngest.
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