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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:20:03 -0000 (UTC)
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 19:05 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 04:12 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:58:58 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I used to say back in the mainframe days:
>>>> 
>>>> Everybody uses COBOL because everybody uses COBOL.
>>>
>>> FORTRAN.  COBOL was for brain dead business people who loved to type...
>> 
>> 
>> Then everyone used BASIC for a while.
>
> Not really. I used FORTH, C, and assembler. I did do one project involving 
> BASIC but it was an attempt to speed up the BASIC the application people 
> used by preparsing it to a sort of IL for a runtime but I was working in 
> Z-80 assembler. 
>
> The only time I did much with BASIC was a follow on to the original 
> project. An AT used a number of satellite XTs to control the environmental 
> chambers. My contract was to develop the AT end in C. Someone else did the 
> XTs in BASIC. I eventually went back for 6 months to clean up and enhance 
> the XT code.It wasn't bad enough to do a complete rewrite.
>
> I did do a patch on a legacy BASIC program about 20 years ago after 
> swearing everyone to secrecy. That was in the same category as when I 
> fixed the TV of a woman I was interested in and made her swear I didn't 
> know anything about TVs other than how to plug them in. She wanted to play 
> Pong and who was I to say no? 


Well, from what I've read and stuff, BASIC was on a lot of different
computers.
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