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Wasn't BASIC most popular language though? Which really was as high as it went.
by Ekaros 3y ago
Wasn't BASIC most popular language though? Which really was as high as it went.
- cyco130 3y agoBut any non-trivial BASIC program had to include a few machine language subroutines here and there for speed. And people knew how to “hand-assemble” them without even an assembler.
- defrost 3y agoPopular as a "my first language" kind of thing .. not especially popular for making useful functional technical software. In the late 70s and 80s Assembler, Pascal, C, Fortran, Modula-2, Forth, Lisp were all used to create CAD, GIS, robot control, symbolic math, abstract algebra, etc. type programs.