3 May
2024
3 May
'24
2:39 a.m.
I still have Microsoft's first product somewhere, in my garage I think.
4K and 8K BASIC on Paper tape.
Alas, no paper tape reader anymore..
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:30:33PM -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
Microsoft loves to take languages developed by others
and transmogrify them
into the "Microsoft Universe".
Quick Basic, Visual Java, Visual Basic, Visual C# (barely resembles C) and
the worst offender of all Visual C++ .NET.
Your post reminded me that Postscript is an actual programming language as
well.
On 5/2/2024 11:24 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
--
Bill Duncan, | http://billduncan.org/
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I'll add a postscript with my reaction upon
seeing my first Microsoft
Visual BASIC program code:
"What the hell is this? It's not BASIC!"
--Chuck