Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language?

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On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 14:05:12 -0600
BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> wrote:

> > And/or that anybody using BASIC in a modern context is gonna be
> > using something like FreeBASIC, which is a vastly improved and
> > perfectly reasonable little language compared to the early
> > microcomputer BASICs. 
> 
> In one project, I ended up implementing a BASIC dialect partly
> inspired by early Unstructured BASIC dialects. Though, in this case,
> this was more because it allowed writing an interpreter in roughly
> 1000 lines of C.
> 
> Though, I ended up extending it in some non-standard ways that didn't 
> really match up with either 80s BASIC, or the direction the language 
> went in the 90s.
> 
> But, the use-case I had didn't really need it to go in the 90s 
> direction, and keeping the interpreter small also did not favor going 
> that direction (where the 90s dialects more went in the direction of 
> trying to turn it into a more general purpose programming language).

Yeah, there've been a number of odd little one-off BASICs over the
years. ASIC was one that struck me as particularly kooky - a shareware
implementation that could compile to COM/EXE, but which lacked a number
of operators/control structures :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIC_programming_language

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What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-31 06:48 +0000
  Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-10-31 13:28 +0100
  Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-10-31 08:17 -0700
    Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-31 22:47 +0000
    Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-01 06:26 +0000
    Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-11-03 14:05 -0600
      Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-03 20:29 +0000
        Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-11-03 14:55 -0600
          Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-03 23:10 +0000
            Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-11-04 12:02 -0600
              Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-04 20:32 +0000
      Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-03 15:56 -0800
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      Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-08-28 09:59 -0700
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