programminglanguage:basic

How I learned 15 #programming languages, and why your kids will too
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Crypterium presents you with a life story of our CTO #TechMind. A simple tale of a programmer yet a good intro read to the world of tech for regular readers. The story shows the importance of believing in your dreams and significance of strong family relations. Let’s go!When I was 12 years old, I got sick and had to go to the hospital for a check-up. No need to worry, turned out I only had angina. But a couple of hours I spent in the hospital back then did, in some way, predetermine my whole life.While I was waiting for the examination, someone gave me a book — just to cheer me up. #it turned out to be about BASIC, an early programming language that was and still is among the simplest and most popular programming languages. I loved the whole idea of creating new things from scratch so badly (...)

#fintech #blockchain #cryptocurrency

How Fast Can Google #go Really Go?
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I started #programming in the 70’s as a teenager on both the good old TRS 80 with a cassette drive and the BASIC language and on an IBM mainframe with RPGII and #cobol. The TRS 80 was making an attempt at games, text based ones, but they were fun. For the real world we were using computers to batch process data and the languages were optimized for it. RPG (not to be confused with Role Playing Game) was super powerful but super odd, as it was totally optimized towards the 80 column punch card with as little effort as possible, while COBOL and BASIC were free format. Fortunately the number of installations of RPG and BASIC is relatively small these days, but what about COBOL and can it be replaced?According to reports, COBOL is still 70% of the installed software in the world and processes (...)

#google-go #golang

“Five Retro Operating Systems You Can Run on the Raspberry Pi” (MS-DOS, Commodore, etc)

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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)) ; : GOTO 10
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This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture.

10 PRINT’s content is also available as a PDF (50 MB), provided under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.