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> You can come at that from a different perspective in an improved editor, like Emacs 1. I wouldn't put beginners in front of Emacs, no. 2. The BASIC user-int
by lproven 3y ago
> You can come at that from a different perspective in an improved editor, like Emacs
1. I wouldn't put beginners in front of Emacs, no.
2. The BASIC user-interaction model can be implemented in 8kB of ROM, and was on most Commodore 8-bits, for instance, without any block-addressible direct storage. That's a big win, in my book.
> I wonder if this is simpler to you just because you imprinted on specific BASIC dialects as a child.
I genuinely don't think so, no. It genuinely seems like a simple, clean, logical division to me, and the way that C and C-derived languages let implementation details fall through for the user to have to face and deal with seems like a major failing to me.