Re: RIP Thomas Kurtz

From	Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.lang.basic
Subject	Re: RIP Thomas Kurtz
Date	2025-01-10 17:39 -0600
Organization	Modern Human
Message-ID	<vlsb2l$23o31$3@solani.org> (permalink)
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On 1/6/25 1:18 PM, Auric__ wrote:
> Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>> On 1/3/25 11:58 PM, Auric__ wrote:
>>> Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/31/24 10:48 AM, Auric__ wrote:
>>>>> Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/16/2024 5:20 PM, Auric__ wrote:
>>>>>>> I just found out that Thomas Kurtz died on the 12th at the age of 96.
>>>>>>> For those unaware of history, Kurtz created BASIC with John Kemeny in
>>>>>>> the mid-60s at Dartmouth. (Kemeny died in 1992.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Their "TrueBASIC" still costs money :)
>>>>>
>>>>> You say that like it's a bad thing.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have it?
>>>
>>> Yes. For multiple OS's.
>>
>> What do you do with them, mostly?
> 
> At the moment, nothing; my current paying work is in C, FreeBASIC, and Xojo.
> 
> In the past, some old DOS programs and some minor toys. (Notably, a util to
> detokenize a p-code project from another language.)
> 
> In general, testing, proofs-of-concept, etc.
> 

Does a program that's written in truebasic run on computers with other 
forms of basic on them?

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