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> BASIC was pushed on to the home micro scene by Microsoft BASIC existed on many different platforms (including mainframe and minicomputers) long before MS got
by teh_klev 6y ago
> BASIC was pushed on to the home micro scene by Microsoft
BASIC existed on many different platforms (including mainframe and minicomputers) long before MS got in on the act (see also the sibling comment here about when BASIC was invented).
> Any talk of BASIC being useful is nonsense.
Now, this is nonsense. I started with Apple BASIC in 1979, then simply due to curiosity learned many other languages (many have fallen by the wayside, 6502, FORTH, Pascal, COBOL) and it bootstrapped my career as a software developer which I still do to this day (like many others of my generation).
All your other comments about having to "unlearn" stuff was perhaps your problem; apropos directory representations, by 1987 due to work and college I worked with multiple different OS directory mechanisms including ADFS, RDOS, AOS, VMS, CP/M, MSDOS and UNIX. Not that big of a deal and just made the week more interesting.