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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: 20 Nov 2024 19:02:07 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <6iKdnTQOKNh6AqD6nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <20241120081039.00006d2a@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /52XK6nSFuzZLK4TgpOL5wiBNu8senRXbChNvZcqKLxMtAJ+9N Cancel-Lock: sha1:EKP2dpEIA+VUJfpmw/AyDTEYHps= sha256:nrFnklkFzuVIpV738DgfKIgP1d+WU8kTCgzoE9lUGyU= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 1773 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.