I only used BASIC to open infinite windows to crash Windows 95.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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GOTO 0
BBC micro in a shop:
10 PRINT "Boobies"
20 GOTO 10
Vic 20 in a shop:
10 POKE 808,112
20 print "Boobies"
30 goto 20
And then you watch the sales assistant walk confidently up to the computer, press the stop button and nothing happens
Dijkstra wants to have a word with you
Working with some proprietary no code tools at the moment, and, yea, not letting people just program in a decent language is a mistake.
I can only think of one example where some simple programming skills could benefit ordinary users: Home Automation. All the more difficult stuff is already neatly packaged into ready to use modules, and the user doesn't have to worry about the ZigBee protocol or APIs or network ports to turn on a light bulb. Here some knowledge about conditionals, variables, loops can easily be used to program useful automations.