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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 23:48:50 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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   Sure, it is #humor, but he tries too hard. https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
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     • clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @clacke I think there are modern dialects of BASIC that fix most of the yucky parts. From what I hear, RealBasic / Xojo [ http://status.hackerposse.com/url/21978 and http://status.hackerposse.com/url/21979 ] and PureBasic [ http://status.hackerposse.com/url/21980 and http://status.hackerposse.com/url/21981 ] are in that list. (I have not tried out anything beyond VisualBasic 5…
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     • clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @clacke Oh, yes. But in a machine with 4K of RAM (late 1970s), they likely were doing well just to get a BASIC interpreter running well enough to attract people to become customers and users. The Commodore 64 and 128 used BASIC because they had already done most of the work in creating the PET and the VIC-20. And because the 4K-16K versions of the very popular Apple II and TRS…