7 Aug
2015
7 Aug
'15
9:50 a.m.
That would be fun, although I don't think this list is setup for
"sub-Reddits." I occasionally hack with my first love, APL. Wouldn't mind
some SNOBOL or PL/1 dalliances, but no time.
Lee C.
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
On Aug 7, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com>
wrote:
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Is there a subset of this group for people who
like to program in
languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer
in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing?
I do programming in BASIC twice a year for the RetroBattlestations BASIC
Week contests. I try to come up with fairly simple but still interesting
programs that people can type in on their old computers. I like BASIC
because there are so many computers that have BASIC on-board and people
don?t need to try to figure out how to get a disk drive or a tape drive
connected and working and can turn on their machine and try out the program.
I usually end up porting the program myself to sevarl different platforms
to give less experienced people something to type in and also give more
experienced people several versions to compare to when they try to port to
their favorite BASIC dialect.
I also did a LOGO Week once. I keep thinking I should do a FORTRAN Week or
a HyperCard Week, but haven?t yet.
You can check out all the past BASIC Week contests (as well as lots of
other contests) here:
http://redd.it/3fmpks
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