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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:18:52 +0200
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On 28.08.2024 20:37, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>> On 27.08.2024 03:16, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> For example, in the Wikipedia entry sense of the term, the original
>>> BASIC is a high-level language, but I think most people would agree
>>> that it is not a very powerful language.
>>
>> I note you are saying "_original_ BASIC".
>>
>> This reminds me someone (I think it was a university professor
>> in the 1980's) saying that BASIC became a low-level language when
>> some vendors introduced 'peek' and 'poke' into the language's set
>> of functions.
> 
> There were BASIC interpreters (and compilers) in the 1970s
> that supported calling functions written in other languages.
> 
> The HP-3000 BASIC interpreter and compiler, for example.

Myself I've never seen or worked with such a system. The first
BASIC systems I worked with were an Olivetti P6060 (a compiler;
with a BASIC that had an immense command set, plus libraries
for graphical plotting and matrix computations), then a Wang
system (with a cassette tape recorder that worked like a real
mainframe tape-system with high speed positioning, but I don't
recall its BASIC commands), and some popular Commodore systems
(PET, CBM; these had peek and poke). There were just too many
dialects around these days. So that language is, feature-wise,
hard to compare WRT the subthread's topic of being a HLL, LLL.

Janis