13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
1:24 p.m.
On 04/13/2017 12:30 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: allison Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM
Not forgetting that writing a BASIC interpreter that resides in 4KB is a
relatively simple task.
There were other interpreted BASIC-like languages before that; e.g. IITRAN.
--Chuck
BASIC, why is that the most universal language
implemented on
nearly every micro and many other systems.
Because it was the language offered on the GEIS timesharing system
when a private boys' school in Seattle decided to teach programming
in 1969? And on the systems at HP where a young technician was
working in 1975?