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I was rather sad when Dijkstra said anyone who learnt on BASIC was irrepairably broken : "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students th
by deepnet 10y ago
I was rather sad when Dijkstra said anyone who learnt on BASIC was irrepairably broken :
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html
The second line of code I ever wrote was in BASIC :
goto 10
- PhantomGremlin 10y agoThat line of code reminded me of the following thing you could do to the Commodore PET[1], one of the first computers to use Microsoft BASIC. 10 GOTO 10 RUN Oops. No way to recover without power cycling the computer. I remember Commodore brought their product to an early computer show, and all the annoying nerds (like me) kept entering that one-line program into the demo computers, much to the annoyance of the nearby sales critters. And it wasn't possible to patch that quickly, since BASIC was in ROM. They probably had a fix about 12 weeks later. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
- animal531 10y agoI wrote a similar (first) version on my Spectrum 48k. For some reason it initiated the same kind of colour cycle that you'd get when loading a program.