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Android 16 was programmed in BASIC (2011)

18 points by redman25 4y ago

makach 4y ago
Haha, this is great. anyways, there is not data to conclude that it IS BASIC. There are many structured languages that can use line numbers. Also the way to make comments in BASIC is with the command REM. The screenshot use the quote character (').
- emeraldd 4y ago
  That's actually used in some variants as well. Notably VisualBasic and I'm sure I've seen it in some older flavors as well.
  - makach 4y ago
    Yes, but visual basic doesn't use line numbers? but for sure. it is probably a shortcut.
    - emeraldd 4y ago
      Here's GWBASIC: https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gw-man/REM.html https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gw-man/REM.html
sn0w_crash 4y ago
Dr Gero truly was a genius
serf 4y ago
and Ghost in the Shell re-affirms our long held suspicion that C will last long into the future[0] [0]: https://github.com/nullgemm/ghck https://github.com/nullgemm/ghck
- Vecr 4y ago
  Ghost in the Shell is set some time around 2030, it's not really that far in the future at this point. Unless there is a major catastrophe, computers will be running binaries compiled from C for centuries at least.
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    Eight years from now, so yes there will definitely be C code being written.
- msh 4y ago
  The hosts in Westworld was coded in JavaScript. No wonder it went bad...
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    In the original film the scrolling code was all DEC assembly language. I thought it was for PDP/8 but apparently it's for a PDP/10.
flobosg 4y ago
Related: “Source Code in TV and Films” – https://moviecode.tumblr.com/ https://moviecode.tumblr.com/
kalleboo 4y ago
> Well, he must have used some low-level methods too to operate the hardware of #16. Thus the programming of #16 must also contain (lots of) assembly I got into computers just as BASIC computers went obsolete so I could be wrong, but couldn't it just have been a heck of a lot of PEEK and POKE statements?
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  Yeah, depending on your hardware and language and language extensions it should be possible to drive a lot of hardware directly from a high level language. Memory mapped hardware would allow peek/poke drivers, but there's nothing preventing someone adding, say, a PORT_RAW_OUT command. And even in the worst case, maybe you use a little asm at the bottom of the stack but you only need a tiny bit in a wrapper function.
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bzxcvbn 4y ago
I'd expect most people who have clicked this link to have done so because they thought it referred to the smartphone OS called Android. Clarification in the title would have been welcome.
rambojazz 4y ago
Peak click bait
laserdancepony 4y ago
I quite like these little sideswipes on old technology in pop culture. Like the Futurama episode that reveals Bender is running on a 6502.
anta40 4y ago
Such a clickbait title. I thought Android 16 = Android OS 16 :p

18 points by redman25 4y ago

Haha, this is great. anyways, there is not data to conclude that it IS BASIC. There are many structured languages that can use line numbers. Also the way to make comments in BASIC is with the command REM. The screenshot use the quote character (').

emeraldd 4y ago
That's actually used in some variants as well. Notably VisualBasic and I'm sure I've seen it in some older flavors as well.
- makach 4y ago
  Yes, but visual basic doesn't use line numbers? but for sure. it is probably a shortcut.
  - emeraldd 4y ago
    Here's GWBASIC: https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gw-man/REM.html https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gw-man/REM.html

sn0w_crash 4y ago

Dr Gero truly was a genius

serf 4y ago

and Ghost in the Shell re-affirms our long held suspicion that C will last long into the future[0] [0]: https://github.com/nullgemm/ghck https://github.com/nullgemm/ghck

Vecr 4y ago
Ghost in the Shell is set some time around 2030, it's not really that far in the future at this point. Unless there is a major catastrophe, computers will be running binaries compiled from C for centuries at least.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  Eight years from now, so yes there will definitely be C code being written.
msh 4y ago
The hosts in Westworld was coded in JavaScript. No wonder it went bad...
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  In the original film the scrolling code was all DEC assembly language. I thought it was for PDP/8 but apparently it's for a PDP/10.

flobosg 4y ago

Related: “Source Code in TV and Films” – https://moviecode.tumblr.com/ https://moviecode.tumblr.com/

kalleboo 4y ago

> Well, he must have used some low-level methods too to operate the hardware of #16. Thus the programming of #16 must also contain (lots of) assembly I got into computers just as BASIC computers went obsolete so I could be wrong, but couldn't it just have been a heck of a lot of PEEK and POKE statements?

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
Yeah, depending on your hardware and language and language extensions it should be possible to drive a lot of hardware directly from a high level language. Memory mapped hardware would allow peek/poke drivers, but there's nothing preventing someone adding, say, a PORT_RAW_OUT command. And even in the worst case, maybe you use a little asm at the bottom of the stack but you only need a tiny bit in a wrapper function.

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bzxcvbn 4y ago

I'd expect most people who have clicked this link to have done so because they thought it referred to the smartphone OS called Android. Clarification in the title would have been welcome.

rambojazz 4y ago

Peak click bait

laserdancepony 4y ago

I quite like these little sideswipes on old technology in pop culture. Like the Futurama episode that reveals Bender is running on a 6502.

anta40 4y ago

Such a clickbait title. I thought Android 16 = Android OS 16 :p