SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Aug 17 02:08:36 2001

Douglas Quebbeman skrev:

>> But then is Pascal that bad?

>Bad? Bad at what? bad *for* what?

We were discussing beginner's languages and alternative to BASIC.

>> Whenever I think of BASIC, and I don't think this applies only to me, I
>think
>> of a cosy 40-column TV screen on a micro with 64 k of addressable memory.
>> Other languages just don't seem as cosy. Must be because of the
>> environment. If the eight-bitters had booted into Pascal, perhaps things
>> would have
>looked
>> differently?

>Most likely you're correct, but then I associate BASIC with a full compiler
>that could generate 132-column headered listings complete with symbol table
>and assembly language output for each statement.

I think the interpreter makes BASIC unequalled pedagogically.

>And as for booting directly into a language environment, any old FORTH
>programmers here? At one time, I thought FORTH would rule the world.

Well, there must be some Jupiter ACE owners here. =)

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