Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:42:54PM -0700, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: Around 1992 I tried to use Basic on my Amiga to compute some stuff and mirrors, spectroscope etc, each exercise was to be summed up, measurents given, plots plotted, means, standard deviations and measurement errors and whatever I forgot, too. So I thought, here is this shiny computer of mine, I will make good use of it. The Basic had Microsoft printed on it. The bloody code delivered nonsense. Every time I tried to fix it, nonsense again. I finished writing the report with good old calculator. My contempt (if not hate) of Microsoft started on that day, I think. My huge reservation towards Basic-the-language, probably too. Of course, chance was, I might have been this much inexperienced. Albeit I wrote my first programs six years earlier, but, sure, might have been not my day. Oh, they open sourced. If you ever watched Spaceballs, you will know what I mean: "Oh shit, here goes the planet"... :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **