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Grant Me StrengthBASIC is 60 years old today!
Happy Birthday to a programming language that introduced millions to software development. 🎉
Happy Birthday to a programming language that introduced millions to software development. 🎉
A cappuccino? At this time of day? I’m embarrassed for you.
Saw a post on the bird site saying “why does everyone at Microsoft hate everything Elon does?”
They have clearly never seen a Microsoft campus parking lot.
Or driven through Redmond.
Many Microserfs enjoy their electric cars. Doesn’t mean they don’t think Elon is getting dangerously nuttier and nuttier everyday.
Also, and especially given the news re: firing the charging team, when they upgrade or move on from their Teslas in a few years they are probably going to consider other options.
kira :3@GrantMeStrength at this point it shouldn't be especially questionable to hate the things elon does, but this is the elon site we're talking about
Eric Furst@GrantMeStrength The HP Time Share BASIC server is still up and running...
https://ef1j.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.HPBASIC
I went all in on it a little while back. Maybe I'll get the ASR-33 fired up today to celebrate!
Fellows@GrantMeStrength Basic was the first programming language I learned back when I was around seven. I found a book on it in the local library of my elementary school. It was filled with all kinds of code examples. Took the book home and used it to lean to program using the Basic version included on my parent’s Apple IIc.
Pete Wright@GrantMeStrength
And somehow some of those people decided to keep learning programming despite BASIC - sorry just kidding!
hand copying BASIC games from books I’d get at the library onto our apple II as a grade schooler is still a great memory of mine, which somehow I was able to turn into a career.
And somehow some of those people decided to keep learning programming despite BASIC - sorry just kidding!
hand copying BASIC games from books I’d get at the library onto our apple II as a grade schooler is still a great memory of mine, which somehow I was able to turn into a career.
sergio_101This was my first programming language. I was only 9 years old when i first started learning it. I remember feeling like there had to be better ways to do things, ways that required much less work. I was too inexperienced to understand what i was missing.
I am SO glad i stuck with it.
I learned on a TRS-80 Model I, Level I, with 4k RAM.
I even figure out how to implement the monte carlo method to calculate pi for the science fair and fit it in 4K.
jz.tuskI briefly misread your last name as "Kemeny"!
Eric@GrantMeStrength it was my first - on a Tandy computer
PoligofskyI first learned a bit of BASIC on a Commodore PET in 1982. But I didn't learn GOSUB (?), so I did a lot of copy/paste. I was 12. I had no teacher. It was hard. I got over it—many years later, I became a professional developer.
Andy Wootton@GrantMeStrength Just as wars introduced many to international travel. The objective is good but does it justify the damage?
John Rohde Jensen@GrantMeStrength I tought myself Basic back in 1983 and it blew my mind. I could make a computer do fun stuff!
It also tought me some unfortunate habits that I had to unlearn later on. Arithmetic goto's are a great example :)
It also tought me some unfortunate habits that I had to unlearn later on. Arithmetic goto's are a great example :)
Michael Schurter@GrantMeStrength BASIC (on an Apple IIe) was my first programming language and true to Dijkstra’s dire warning it really did mentally mutilate me forever.
BASIC taught me languages are first and foremost for the humans writing them. They should be easy to learn and powerful once mastered. They should be accessible and interactive.
BASIC led me to Python and then to Go. Languages I still find a joy and pleasure to use.
Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥@GrantMeStrength I never noticed the swastika in the upper right
Mᴀʀᴋ VᴀɴᴅᴇWᴇᴛᴛᴇʀɪɴɢ@GrantMeStrength BASIC was the gateway drug that lead me to four decades of a great career, as well as opened my mind to a universe of exploration that didn't exist even a couple of decades before. Djikstra was wrong. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html
Jim Easterbrook@GrantMeStrength Funny to think #BASIC was already six years old when I started to use it. Although most other languages I've used were probably older when I started using them.
v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾@GrantMeStrength my itch to code started when i was a kid and did basic on DOS. Next I did Pascal and oh my god what a step up
RC2014@GrantMeStrength
For anybody thinking I am 60, sorry, but I am not that old (yet) and not the Spencer shown there.
For anybody thinking I am 60, sorry, but I am not that old (yet) and not the Spencer shown there.
Cyril Brulebois@GrantMeStrength you never forget your first!!!
Alexander Knochel
Jay Bazuzi@GrantMeStrength @KirillOsenkov
10 PRINT "JAY "
20 GOTO 10
oooooh, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
Kirill Osenkov
Wendy Nather@GrantMeStrength I was a BASIC baby! Learned it 50 years ago. Good times.
Cat Vincent (useless eater)@GrantMeStrength …so BASIC was born exactly 3 months after me!
Phil Burg (he/him)@GrantMeStrength
Well happy birthday to the first programming language I learned, back in 1983.
Well happy birthday to the first programming language I learned, back in 1983.
Paul 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦🇵🇸@GrantMeStrength Shame I only saw this now