Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 28.08.2024 20:37, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 27.08.2024 03:16, Tim Rentsch wrote:

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For example, in the Wikipedia entry sense of the term, the original
BASIC is a high-level language, but I think most people would agree
that it is not a very powerful language.

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I note you are saying "_original_ BASIC".
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This reminds me someone (I think it was a university professor
in the 1980's) saying that BASIC became a low-level language when
some vendors introduced 'peek' and 'poke' into the language's set
of functions.

 
There were BASIC interpreters (and compilers) in the 1970s
that supported calling functions written in other languages.
 
The HP-3000 BASIC interpreter and compiler, for example.

Myself I've never seen or worked with such a system. The first
BASIC systems I worked with were an Olivetti P6060 (a compiler;
with a BASIC that had an immense command set, plus libraries
for graphical plotting and matrix computations), then a Wang
system (with a cassette tape recorder that worked like a real
mainframe tape-system with high speed positioning, but I don't
recall its BASIC commands), and some popular Commodore systems
(PET, CBM; these had peek and poke). There were just too many
dialects around these days. So that language is, feature-wise,
hard to compare WRT the subthread's topic of being a HLL, LLL.

Janis