Wesley Parish wrote:
On the CeBIT last year they had an exhibition of old computers. There was one, I think it was a Commodore C64, which had only BASIC as ui, programming language. You had to use those old audio tapes for saving your data. It is hard to think that someone wrote programs on such a "computer". I wonder what people of my age will say in 30 years when they see a box similar to the ones we are using in a museum.I suppose - because they could. ;)
Myself, I'm not a fan of BASIC, since having tried to learn it in order to play around with graphics with the book "Microcomputer Graphics for the IBM PC", whic was written in the bad old days of BASIC only on the PC.
The book's good, with all the useful stuff, it's just that BASIC's not the language to teach graphics programming in. ;)
I can imagine.
Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann
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