3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
4:01 p.m.
I think many if not most of the people on here
discovered that they enjoyed
and had a gift for programming by playing with BASIC on their C64
I learned BASIC originally on the Tomy Tutor, which has a rather wacky BASIC
that started with TI Extended BASIC and then modified it further (see
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/prog.html
). From there I jumped to C64 BASIC and 6502 assembly, then Turbo Pascal, and
now C/C++, Perl, and occasional PPC assembly and Modula-2 work.
I don't think it's the programming language but rather the aptitude for tools
and procedural design. If people can't conceive of an algorithm in one
language, they probably can't conceive of it in any language (differences in
relative expressivity notwithstanding).
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