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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:30:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 21:05 this Wednesday (GMT):
> John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 03:37:58 -0500
>> "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hmmmmmmmm ... how many now have EVER programmed in BASIC ? Should do
>>> a survey .....
>> 
>> Lord, who hasn't!? Well, probably depends on how you choose to qualify
>> it - we still use VB6 in-house at $EMPLOYER, and FreeBASIC is my go-to
>> for hacking together quick utility applications in daily life, but I
>> haven't touched old-school line-number spaghetti-Gotoese BASIC since
>> childhood, and certainly never built any application of real complexity
>> with it. Bet more than a few people here have, though, especially if we
>> cross-posted over to a.f.computers...
>
> Given the typical age of most posters here, I'd say nearly every one of 
> us has written /something/ in one or more of the 75 different variants 
> of "BASIC" that have existed over time.


I haven't
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