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?
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.
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One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth
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