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I wasn't talking about BASIC, I was talking about assembly. Assembly wasn't that hard on those old things, so why is so much time spent today shoehorning JavaS
by naikrovek 6y ago
I wasn't talking about BASIC, I was talking about assembly.
Assembly wasn't that hard on those old things, so why is so much time spent today shoehorning JavaScript into places it shouldn't go? Spend that effort on something useful, or at least something sane.
- dragontamer 6y agoAnd I'm talking about BASIC, which spawned a generation of programmers. PIC-BASIC, QBasic, TI-83 BASIC, Commodore BASIC. That's how programmers got their start back in the 80s. > Assembly wasn't that hard on those old things Assembly is harder than BASIC, and its harder than Javascript. You can go to any store and pick out a beginner Javascript book these days. But how many Assembly tutorials or books are there? Back in the 80s, it was more about Commodore BASIC books being distributed with the Commodore itself: ftp://www.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/c64/manuals/C64_Users_Guide.pdf Pre-internet, it was books like these that allowed programmers to learn and grow.