Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 21:05 this Wednesday (GMT):

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 03:37:58 -0500
"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
 

Hmmmmmmmm ...  how many now have EVER programmed in BASIC ? 
Should do a survey .....

 
Lord, who hasn't!?  Well, probably depends on how you choose to
qualify it - we still use VB6 in-house at $EMPLOYER, and FreeBASIC
is my go-to for hacking together quick utility applications in
daily life, but I haven't touched old-school line-number
spaghetti-Gotoese BASIC since childhood, and certainly never built
any application of real complexity with it.  Bet more than a few
people here have, though, especially if we cross-posted over to
a.f.computers...

>
Given the typical age of most posters here, I'd say nearly every one
of us has written /something/ in one or more of the 75 different
variants of "BASIC" that have existed over time.

 
I haven't

Which would make you a member of the remainder of "nearly every" (which
does not encompass "all").

It would also imply that you /may/ be one of the younger members posting
in the group.