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It wasn’t luck or popular appeal, it was like they say in real estate: “location, location, location.” JavaScript came bundled with every Web browser, and GW-BA
by smacktoward 6y ago
It wasn’t luck or popular appeal, it was like they say in real estate: “location, location, location.” JavaScript came bundled with every Web browser, and GW-BASIC came bundled with every IBM PC clone. A language that everybody in the world already has a copy of is going to get a lot of use, whether it’s good or not.
- int_19h 6y agoNot just IBM PC, but also hobbyist microcomputers. Few people could afford to have the real thing at home... but they could afford Spectrum or Commodore. And then those BASIC skills would readily translate to PC.