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Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC (2008) (codinghorror.com)
1 point by atlantic on Oct 15, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I felt a pang of recognition when seeing the BASIC examples. Spent several years plinking away, writing improbably cool games in BASIC on an HP2000.

Years later I tried to write something in BASIC; I was paralyzed by the lack of capability. I couldn't write anything; not a simple subroutine, nor a parser - nothing.




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