On 4/2/25 10:44, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > "Ancient BASIC dialects" seems like a rather small obscure domain > and as they say, they're not making any more of them. I'd think > that if you trained an AI on enough examples, they'd do much better. > The BASIC language isn't that complex compared to modern languages > where people are finding AI as a useful assistant, like it or not. > Think of it like old-school "pair programming" that gives you > a friend in your cube to talk to.
BASIC is not "ancient" although I suppose one could assign a vintage year. Plugboard programming is ancient, at least in the area of electronic computing. --Chuck
