On 5/1/24 16:37, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> To be sure, BASIC was hardly unique in terms of the 1960s interactive >> programming languages. We had JOSS, PILOT, IITRAN and a host of others, >> based on FORTRAN-ish syntax. not to forget APL, which was a thing apart. >> >> --Chuck >> > > And where are all those other languages today?
How much of the original BASIC language endures? You know, single-character or character-followed-by-number variable names, floating point only, etc.? Yet FORTRAN, the granddaddy of them all, continues on... It should be noted that FORTRAN celebrates its 70th anniversary this year: https://www.edn.com/1st-fortran-program-runs-september-20-1954/ To the best of my knowledge no supercomputer application code has ever been written in BASIC, but I"m willing to be disabused of that notion. --Chuck
