Happy 40th Birthday Basic!!!!!

The programming language Basic turned 40 today as I was informed by me good buddy Hanners at EB.

I love Basic, it's still my fave proggy language. Not because it's good or efficient, but because it's soo much darn fun to program! (Although I think it was a huge step backwards when they got rid of the "goto" command... ;) )

Anyways, like I said over there:

Code:
10 FOR K=1 TO 3 STEP 1
20 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,"
30 NEXT K
40 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BASIC,"
50 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!"
60 GOTO 10
70 END

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much fun... "i remember back when we could just nip into dixons , and write some daft program on the computers and nip back out"

my favourite for bbc model-b... (with a little online help for the gcol command)

10 MODE 0:REM fink this was 640*512 2 colour res
20 GCOL 3,1:REM set draw colour to 1 , but XOR mode.
30 FOR I%=0 TO 1280 STEP 4
40 MOVE I%,0
50 DRAW 1280-I%,1024
60 IF I%<1024 THEN MOVE 0,I%:DRAW 1280,1024-I%
70 NEXT I%

it *should* do a moire pattern on the screen :)

dunno about losing goto,, but i *really* liked BBC basic with its function defines . . . you could do proper recursing programming...
oh hum
-dave-

cool !! interpreter for pc
http://www.bbcbasic.com
 
digitalwanderer said:
Happy 40th Birthday Basic!!!!!

I love Basic ...
:oops:
Thanks for the appreciation, but I feel a little uncomfortable with the "love" part from you. And even if I may be somewhat old, I'm not 40 yet.





Ohh, you didn't mean me?
:D
 
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