12 May
1999
12 May
'99
2:51 a.m.
>> I'm interested in the old line
numbered basics. Are there any web
>>sites or email lists regarding programming in the old basic languages?
>Yipes, I thought they were all that way. ;) Then again I learned basic on a
>Data General via teletype. What sort of questions do you have?
On Wed, 12 May
1999, Christian Fandt wrote:
Gee Stephanie, that question makes some of us feel
*old*! :-)
Us 'older folks' learned BASIC back in the old days and knew it as always
having line numbers then. Mike falls within "our group" it appears.
So, it's true!? There really are new dialects of BASIC without
line numbers! And dialects of FORTRAN that don't require a FORMAT
statement! And did you hear about "Visual COBOL"??
What is this world coming to?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com