> From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 12 Aug 2004, at 3:20 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > > At 08:49 PM Wednesday 8/11/04, William T Goodall wrote: > > > >> On 12 Aug 2004, at 1:55 am, Davd Brin wrote: > >>> There is nothing at all resembling a simple > >>> place to write line by line code and simply typr > >>> "run". > >> > >> And 'run' would come to mind for who?
Raises hand. > > > > Anyone old enough to know BASIC? > > > > I'd better point this out to my wife's 87 year old grandmother next > time I see her then :) "You're old enough to know BASIC! What do you > mean you don't know what run means!" > > Silly! > > "RUN" is a little tiny historical artifact that even when it was > current was known by a tiny percentage of people. Personal computers > arrived in the mid 70's, but nobody really had them until the eighties. > In '84 the Mac GUI came along and by '94 Windoze had cloned it. 99% + > of everyone who ever used a computer used a GUI first and never saw > BASIC. Or wanted to. I used AppleBasic on Apple II's and gwBasic on DOS 3 when I was younger. And I'm one of the youngest members of brin-l. I even took a class in applebasic in the seventh grade. I know run. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
