Carlos Rodrigues 🪣 on Nostr: BASIC turns 60 today. About it, Dijkstra once said: "It is practically impossible to ...
BASIC turns 60 today. About it, Dijkstra once said:
"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."
Yet, BASIC was key to luring many young home microcomputer users into programming during the 80's.
To celebrate, open the C64 emulator at
https://ty64.krissz.hu and type...
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));
20 GOTO 10
Then RUN, and rejoice. 🍺
#basic #c64
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