Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

Sixty years of BASIC
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According to multiple sources,  the BASIC programming  language is 60
today. For me,  it was the very first programming language I ever saw
and even today  it's together with Python,  SQL  and  C# the language
I use most.

Yes, it's of course mostly because of my interest in 8-bit computers,
but I also ocasionally  type BASIC code for living, as the company in
which I work has some core applications still in Microsoft Access 97.

So I spent  today about an hour reading in the S*BASIC reference book
to commemorate  the event.  By the way,  S*BASIC and  its predecessor 
SuperBASIC,  both running on Sinclair QL computers,  are probably the
best BASIC  dialects I ever met.  Because QL had  a true multitasking
OS right  from the start,  BASIC plays the same role  as the shell on
unix-like systems. It indeed is very interesting  to use the familiar
language but with literally hundreds of new keywords and more power.

Keep BASIC alive!