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The first seventeen years of my career were PC Basic, DEC PDP/VAX Basic, and Visual Basic. I switched to C# and object-oriented programming in 2002. I still hav
by ChicagoDave 4y ago
The first seventeen years of my career were PC Basic, DEC PDP/VAX Basic, and Visual Basic. I switched to C# and object-oriented programming in 2002. I still have MS Pro Basic code in production from ‘90.
I wouldn’t wish GOTO/GOSUB on anyone, but the latter procedural versions of BASIC were very productive tools.
- dhosek 4y agoDEC’s BASIC was a surprisingly capable language. It was what I wrote my first recursive code in. I remember being annoyed that you couldn’t do the same in AppleSoft.