Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.

  • okflo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    oh the memories - I started with Commodore BASIC on the C-64. Second Basic (after 6502 Assembler) was AmigaBasic. Oh god, it was soooo slow. Scrolling though your code, you could watch the lines being printed. Finally I bought (!) GFA Basic - that was great! Probably spoiled my programming habits till now! :)

  • diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Thanks, BASIC, for teaching me so much I had to later unlearn in order to not be a garbage programmer.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      8 months ago

      The first time I tried another programming language, I was confused as to how to write code without using GOTO.