BASIC, the Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is 40 years old.
10 PRINT "In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical" 20 PRINT "idea - create a computer language muscular enough to harness" 30 PRINT "the power of the period's computers, yet simple enough that even" 40 PRINT "the school's janitors could use it." 50 END
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Heh. I remember playing a BASIC practical joke on you more than 20 years ago. I asked you to help debug a program I was writing. When you typed “list,” I had the program respond with “Dave, I don’t understand why you’re doing this.” I just wish I’d had time to program random HAL 9000 responses before you came over. Would’ve been much funnier.
I also wasted many an hour writing a D&D character generator. I don’t know how many times I would think of something else that it needed to do, and go back and cram it in between lines 270 and 300.
Boy, those were the days, huh? (I’m not sure if I’m being sarcastic or not.)