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Wow! Funny to see this...I started this project as a hobby in grad school and never thought it would stick around this long. The current maintainer had been wor
by drblast 11y ago
Wow! Funny to see this...I started this project as a hobby in grad school and never thought it would stick around this long. The current maintainer had been working on it for years since I couldn't anymore and has done a fantastic job.
The original idea was to mimic the C64 Basic I grew up with. I think with modern teaching languages the control flow is too abstracted to give you a good idea of what the machine is actually doing. Early basics really mimicked machine code quite closely...I think that was important.
My hope was that it would never get advanced features, and that it would be instructional and then kids would move to Python or Racket, but adults liked it for generating art because of the simple graphics procedures.
Anyway, it's good to see my baby grown up a bit.