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BASIC has some deeply aggravating misfeatures and missing features that would be easy to fix without significantly expanding the scope of the language, e.g. bet
by RyanMcGreal 14y ago
BASIC has some deeply aggravating misfeatures and missing features that would be easy to fix without significantly expanding the scope of the language, e.g. better data types like native lists and dicts, and easier support for functions and procedure calls (fixed IIRC in QBASIC).
- joezydeco 14y agoDo we really need lists, dicts, and funcs to let a 10 year-old kid do this? 50 PRINT "Ryan McGreal" 80 PRINT "is Awesome"
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoNo, but BASIC would make a better gateway drug to more powerful languages if it allowed kids to get exposed to those things.