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Rocky Mountain basic had exceptionally nice string handing, array handling and could do matrix math. I think traditional CS hates BASIC because it's hard to ge
by Gibbon1 3y ago
Rocky Mountain basic had exceptionally nice string handing, array handling and could do matrix math.
I think traditional CS hates BASIC because it's hard to get people to look at it in terms of pure math. And it enables muggles to create useful programs.
- yetanotherloss 3y agoI look at it more like Excel now. It gives you just enough to do simple things easily with tools that make more complicated things ... Horrifying. Seeing deeply nested excel IFs that parsed out individual letters of a string for recursive cell logic still gives me nightmares.