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The BASIC programming language turns 60 (arstechnica.com)
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I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

BBC BASIC was best BASIC. Fight me.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is an open source implementation of BBC Basic for modern systems that’s being actively developed - BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0.

[–] therealbabyshell@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It is great with lots of libraries. I am writing a game in it right now.

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