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The fragmentation of BASIC was a huge problem. Also, that one of the most widespread, CBM BASIC 4 on the C64, was utter junk and made an entire generation of h
by lproven 4y ago
The fragmentation of BASIC was a huge problem.
Also, that one of the most widespread, CBM BASIC 4 on the C64, was utter junk and made an entire generation of home computer owners believe that BASIC was junk, period.
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Contemporaneous with the C64 were some excellent 8-bit BASICs, notably BBC BASIC on the BBC Micro, but also Beta BASIC on the ZX Spectrum (a 3rd party add-on) and SAM BASIC on the SAM Coupé (an enhanced Spectrum compatible.)
But not, by and large, on any American home computers, and so the large majority of people who mostly only saw, used and knew American home computers didn't know and were misled into believing that BASIC was rubbish.
And so we all got C instead.
And that really is rubbish. A quick and dirty hack from the 1970s that has created a multi-billion-dollar industry in fixing leaky broken software.