1 May
2024
1 May
'24
11:23 p.m.
Considering the time that it was introduced to the world, and what it was
intended to do, and what it did do, and how it went on to become something
much, much greater than what Kemeny and Kurtz ever envisioned (even though
they didn't like much of it), BASIC does not get nearly as much credit as
it deserves.
Sellam
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:05 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Mike Katz wrote:
I'm sorry but the original BASIC as run on
the Dartmouth Time Sharing
System
was compiled.
I wasn't around Dartmouth, and my first experiences with BASIC were all
interpreted.
I had run a trivial program in it on a Silent 700 connected through a
phone line, long before I got my first personal computer (TRS80).
Thank you for the details of the history.
When Microsoft introduced "BASCOM" (their BASIC compiler), my first uses
of it were primarily to make my source code less easily accessible to
would-be infringers. :-)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com