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Like most of the programmers of my generation, BASIC was the first language I learned. BASIC was so pervasive in the 80s and 90s. Nearly every computer came w
by _mlbt 2y ago
Like most of the programmers of my generation, BASIC was the first language I learned. BASIC was so pervasive in the 80s and 90s. Nearly every computer came with a copy of some flavor of BASIC. Even my 6th grade math textbook had an appendix with educational math games in the form of BASIC source code listings.
So long and thanks for all the fish Dr. Kurtz!
- fuzztester 2y agoWhy "thanks.*fish"? (regex, chill ;) I know it is a saying, have read it before, but would prefer to hear the explanation from a person rather than Google.
- jpc0 2y agoHitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- mmcdermott 2y agoTo add to this, it is revealed in Hitchhikers that dolphins are super intelligent extraterrestrials. "So long and thanks for all the fish" is the superintelligent dolphins farewell to the last of earth/hummanity.
- fuzztester 2y agothat's rather finny :) or fishy.
- fuzztester 2y agoif they are extraterrestrials, wtf are they doing on terra, or rather, in / under oceania? /jk also, no way they can be superintelligent, if they came here, even once. bcoz, u no, shipz propellers, orcas, etc.
- schoen 2y agoI'd say Douglas Adams novels are full of superintelligent and/or superpowered entities that don't always think things through properly. There's a serious Murphy's Law flavor to his scenarios, even if you're the President of the Galaxy or the Man Who Rules the Universe or a planetary engineer or the most intelligent robot ever built or whatever. You're still going to trip and fall, or experience unrequited love, or get stranded on a boring planet, or have an embarrassing misunderstanding, or concoct a wacky scheme that goes wrong somehow.
- kaba0 2y agoGiven human events, he was not wrong in that conclusion. (If we even consider ourselves super intelligent)
- fuzztester 2y agoastute - you and gp both.
- rswail 2y agoI thought it was the mice that were the super intelligent extraterrestrials?
- markedathome 2y agoThe mice were the mechanism by which the hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional beings observed their experiment. The experiment being "what is the Ultimate Question?" by running a 10 million year simulation.
- kaba0 2y agoI believe we were only the 3rd most intelligent on Earth, or something like that? Both dolphins and mouse being more intelligent.
- fuzztester 2y agoHeard of the book, but have not read it, 41 times so far. Next time ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)
- runevault 2y agoI ended up using multiple versions of basic because the various boot discs we had came with different versions. Off the top of my head I remember BASIC, BASICA, and QBASIC. Not that I remember the differences between the flavors any more.