My proposal for this years SHOT conference in Luxembourg was accepted! I contribute to the "Code Histories" session with a talk about my #BASIC research project.

https://shrtn.escalar.pt/E3XO

#GameStudies #BreakOut #CriticalCodeStudies #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerPhilology

I think the #BASIC RETURN command is the root of all #SpaghettiCode evil! It works like a #COMEFROM (https://shrtn.escalar.pt/OXnO) and hinders you to understand the code on the first sight (without reading it closely and executing it mentally). A friend suggested to change its function to RETURNTO. 😅

#ComputerPhilology #GOTO

Tracing the #GOTO, GOSUB, RETURN, ON GOTO and THEN [Line Number] movements of the #BASIC interpreter through a #game for the #C64 from 1983 (Source: N. N.: "Grips". In: Homecomputer, August 1983, S. 14f.)

... for my talk at the @vcfe in May: https://vcfe.org/D/Vortraege.html

#ComputerPhilology #Commodore64 #SpaghettiCode

VCFe.org

Vintage Computer Festival Event Information

vcfe.org

... and now: "Distant Source Code Critique" @DHdKonferenz

#BASIC #ComputerPhilology

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What nice cover art!

#Paperware #ComputerPhilology

Just published the German language draft of my 2018 talk (https://bit.ly/3Vf1UwJ) "How to do Things with Keys. Programmieren als Geste" on Academia:

https://www.academia.edu/91258893/How_to_Do_Things_with_Keys_Assembler_Programmieren_als_Geste

#Assembly #Flusser #programming #ComputerArcheology #ComputerPhilology #Linguistics

How to Do Things with Keys. (Assembly) Programming as (a Kind of) Gesture — MAP