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| From | Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: BASIC is 50 |
| Date | 2014-04-30 10:46 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <bsc2kfFflsgU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <ljqg3o$8dh$2@dont-email.me> <ULednaJtMsU4Tv3OnZ2dnUVZ_o6dnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:42:44 -0700, Ant wrote: > On 4/30/2014 2:34 AM PT, Gordon Henderson typed: > >> So there you go. I'm a shade older than BASIC but wouldn't have >> appreciated it at the time... >> >> More here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/ >> >> The first BASIC program appears to be: >> >> 10 LET X = (7 + 8) / 3 20 PRINT X 30 END >> >> but of-course millions of us (not me, of-course!) did the >> >> 10 PRINT "<insert name here> IS <expletive> COOL!" >> 20 GOTO 10 >> >> then ran out of the shop... >> >> Gordon > I learned BASIC on Apple 2s as a callow ant. :) I learned it on teletypes like those in the pictures. Using the book written by Kemeny and Kurtz. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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BASIC is 50 Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-04-30 09:34 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-30 03:42 -0700
Re: BASIC is 50 Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-04-30 10:46 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-04-30 12:03 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-30 11:12 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-04-30 15:56 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-30 20:41 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-04-30 18:38 -0600
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-01 02:38 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-04-30 22:50 -0600
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-30 20:48 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-05-02 09:27 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-02 09:50 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-07 10:48 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-07 10:57 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-05-07 11:20 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-07 13:14 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-07 16:05 +0300
Re: BASIC is 50 Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-08 18:06 +0200
Re: BASIC is 50 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-08 20:17 +0300
Re: BASIC is 50 "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 16:08 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-07 18:38 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 19:09 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-05-07 19:08 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 greymausg@mail.com - 2014-05-08 10:15 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-08 11:38 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-08 17:55 +0200
Re: BASIC is 50 Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-08 17:44 +0200
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-12 12:39 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-12 16:06 +0300
Re: BASIC is 50 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-12 22:48 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-13 12:03 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-13 13:23 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-13 16:22 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-13 19:42 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-13 19:49 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-14 01:09 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-14 09:51 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 bde@besplex.bde.org (Bruce Evans) - 2014-05-14 10:36 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-14 12:58 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 bde@besplex.bde.org (Bruce Evans) - 2014-05-14 16:13 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-14 19:24 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-13 15:50 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-01 02:50 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2014-05-01 09:06 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-05-01 09:56 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-01 10:25 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-01 16:43 +0300
Re: BASIC is 50 Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-05-01 18:03 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-05-01 21:35 +0000
Re: BASIC is 50 Rob <monst.oorzudo@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-01 22:41 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2014-05-02 09:26 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-02 10:46 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-02 23:11 +0100
Re: BASIC is 50 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-04-30 17:51 +0300
Re: BASIC is 50 Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-14 17:40 +0100
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