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i tried to program core war in qbasic once, managed to draw a title screen and then realized i had no idea how to continue
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rotor posted:idk what the motivation was. Honestly at the time the idea of a robust, complete, free, well-documented toolchain & stdlib was sort of revolutionary so
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pascal was not memory managed and i believe, in the language as standardized, you could not even use its dynamic memory support for variable length arrays
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getting back to the thread topic, visual basic probably would have been a reasonable option for schools to use at the time but microsoft was not really pushing it into education because it was already well on its way to business adoption
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i enrolled in a basic programming class in TYOOL 1994 because the engineering program had a core programming requirement and the course used qbasic. the first day the instructor went through an overview of the DOS environment that included configuring the prompt to show the working directory. DOS prompt formats use "$d" as the format code for the directory and when the instructor got to that part he said "now type string d." it is reasonable to believe that tim paterson chose the dollar sign for that purpose because he had a basic programming background and that seemed like a natural way to indicate a variable within a format. but i already wasn't excited about taking a basic course in 1994 and the idea that an instructor would say "string" and just expect people to understand a dollar sign irritated me enough to go enroll in the CS department's pascal course as a substitute Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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i don't regret it
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Lol that anyone teaches operator overloading
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its true that dijkstra was a hopeless math nerd but he was also looking back from algol 60 which was revolutionary in a way that can be hard to appreciate. BASIC was trying to solve the problems of 1950s languages without the benefit of the work that algol had already done, much like PHP trying to make webdev easy without knowing anything about PLs or especially how subversion "fixed" CVS by hacking changelists on top of it
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