Considering the time that it was introduced to the world, and what it was intended to do, and what it did do, and how it went on to become something much, much greater than what Kemeny and Kurtz ever envisioned (even though they didn't like much of it), BASIC does not get nearly as much credit as it deserves.
Sellam On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:05 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2024, Mike Katz wrote: > > I'm sorry but the original BASIC as run on the Dartmouth Time Sharing > System > > was compiled. > > I wasn't around Dartmouth, and my first experiences with BASIC were all > interpreted. > > I had run a trivial program in it on a Silent 700 connected through a > phone line, long before I got my first personal computer (TRS80). > > > Thank you for the details of the history. > > > When Microsoft introduced "BASCOM" (their BASIC compiler), my first uses > of it were primarily to make my source code less easily accessible to > would-be infringers. :-) > > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com >
