On 5/2/24 05:55, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 00:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
What would our world be like if the first home computers were to have had
APL, instead of BASIC?
To be perfectly honest I think the home computer boom wouldn't have
happened, and it would have crashed and burned in the 1970s, with the
result that microcomputers remained firmly under corporate control.
Well, I have my doubts. I did run ONE program in BASIC on
my home Z-80 system, that was a VERY crude simulation of an
electric car. I had an S-100 Z-80 system from about 1976
with paper tape. I then got a floppy drive, and later a
Memorex 10 MB Winchester drive. I did a LOT of programming
in assembly language but also did larger programs like cross
assemblers in Pascal.
Yes, I know a lot of people programmed in BASIC, but I
didn't find it very good.
Jon
