Re: BASIC turns 60

On Wed, 01 May 2024 17:16:40 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

I myself have semi-fond memories of typing in BASIC
programs from some magazine into my 8-bit PC, and then struggling to
understand what the hell I was doing.

Oh god. Those long DATA lines and a bunch of FOR-nested POKE statements.
You were entering a basic program that bootstrapped machine code. Doesn't
count.

But some of them were really BASIC.

I'm surprised it survived copyright battles.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten