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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

echinopsis posted:

Despite Dijkstra's famous judgement in 1975, "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration",[11] BASIC was one of the few languages that was both high-level enough to be usable by those without training and small enough to fit into the microcomputers of the day, making it the de facto standard programming language on early microcomputers.

dijkstra was a clown

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

pram posted:

the late 90s kid programming starter pack: qbasic, pirated copy of vb6, GORILLA.BAS

with vb6 you can easily make programs that will spam the poo poo out of aol chat rooms

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

here is a video of a TI-86 demo made in Basic. there are plenty of better TI demos, sure, but this is Basic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QwfBivriiA

not basic, but lol the music on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxMzhw-Qrvw

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Phone posted:

in high school and community college, i was repeatedly owned by c++ and scheme related programming classes (why the gently caress is programming 101 using c++ when week 4 is for loops and week 5 is operator overloading?)

then i got a job doing cobol in a codebase that was 30 years old, 150 million lines, and filled to the brim with gotos :getin:

(i now sling plsql lmao)

i don't think school is where you got owned here

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

echinopsis posted:

what’s a real world use case for operator overdosing?

doing printf in a really unintuitive way

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