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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:31:36 +0000
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On 20/11/2024 16:10, 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...
> 
I've seen entire accounting systems written in it.
I gotr quite deep into it before discovering...

*Tada!*

....Z80 Assembler Which was fun, but slow..until
The C language. Still fun, but MUCH faster.

-- 
"An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out 
only in others...”

Tom Wolfe