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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

My all-time favourite programming language was a dialect of BASIC. HiSoft BASIC on the Atari ST.

RIP.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

RIP legend. O7

May his prompt always read "READY" wherever his legacy may GOTO or RETSUB.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

F, QBASIC was the first logical programming language I learned in high school back in 2004. It was extremely outdated back then but BASIC (in it's various forms) is hard to beat when it comes to learning the fundamentals.