On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:42:54PM -0700, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > Seems of interest. Will be interesting to play with. > > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/ >
Around 1992 I tried to use Basic on my Amiga to compute some stuff from the physics lab. As a student, I was to learn few things - laser and mirrors, spectroscope etc, each exercise was to be summed up, measurents given, plots plotted, means, standard deviations and measurement errors and whatever I forgot, too. So I thought, here is this shiny computer of mine, I will make good use of it. The Basic had Microsoft printed on it. The bloody code delivered nonsense. Every time I tried to fix it, nonsense again. I finished writing the report with good old calculator. My contempt (if not hate) of Microsoft started on that day, I think. My huge reservation towards Basic-the-language, probably too. Of course, chance was, I might have been this much inexperienced. Albeit I wrote my first programs six years earlier, but, sure, might have been not my day. Oh, they open sourced. If you ever watched Spaceballs, you will know what I mean: "Oh shit, here goes the planet"... :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
