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that Readme smells of LLMs and elderberries
by SSLy 1y ago
that Readme smells of LLMs and elderberries
- lloydatkinson 1y ago> It democratized programming Yawn. Everything “democratizes” everything these days.
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- dmbche 1y agoHow about when they invented BASIC
- spogbiper 1y agoby "they" do you mean Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth, back in the early 60s?
- zozbot234 1y agoKemeny and Kurtz's BASIC was an ahead-of-time compiled language which ran on time-shared machines; mainframes at first then smaller "mini"-computers. The typical interpreted BASIC for microcomputers was quite a bit simpler than that.
- dmbche 1y agoPretty sure linguistically the important bit is "when" and the "they" is not defined Like when awaiting pizza delivery, "they're here in 10 mins" doesn't directly relate to a specific guy Could be wrong though And no, to answer your question
- petcat 1y agoI think it commercialized programming. True democratization didn't really happen until Stallman, GCC, and the GPL.
- PaulHoule 1y agoBASIC put programming in reach of a wide range of people. Steve Wozniak himself documented his personal progression from implementing a Breakout game with gates (see [1]) to implementing it in 6502 assembly to implementing it in BASIC [2] You could have that BASIC experience on a minicomputer like the PDP-8, 11, or 20 which you might have at a high school or college earlier but with microcomputers you could have it in elementary school or at home. [1] https://thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=bitstory-article-2/breakout https://thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=bitstory-article-2/breako... [2] http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2012/09/basic-history-of-basic-dr-kurtz-david.html http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2012/09/basic-history-of-b...
- criddell 1y agoIt definitely democratized programming. There were a lot of us buying home computers and writing little programs that nobody ever saw. Nothing commercial ever came of the little utilities or games we made. Before we got our home computer, the closest I ever got to a computer was reading about them in the encyclopedia. What Stallman did a decade later was great if you happened to have access to the type of computer that could run Emacs. Even then, you probably didn't own the machine and maybe even had to pay for time on it by the hour. The small machines that ran Microsoft Basic were in people's homes.
- HankStallone 1y agoYeah, my Commodore 128 came with a 400-page system guide, nearly half of which was a BASIC reference and programming tutorial that explained concepts like looping and arrays. Those computers assumed you might want to program at least a little, and tried to make it easy to get started, so a lot of us did.
- criddell 1y agoThe original IBM PC came with a technical reference book that had full schematics and BIOS source code!
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- oompydoompy74 1y agoWho cares?
- cube00 1y agoQuillBot reports 100% AI for section "Why This Document is Historically Important"
- LeFantome 1y agoWell, my father WAS a hamster