Some of my aversion to complicated IDEs dates back to the Osborne One having you type out your CBASIC code in fancy WordStar 4.5 "binary mode" where Microsoft's MBASIC had it's own dead simple turn key IDE that didn't require swapping out floppies in between code tests.
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#Programming #BASIC #IDE #retrocomputing #OsborneOne
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Close to none of this is true whatsoever. It was partly inspired by #Commodore64, but also by CP/M. And while #qbsh does support basic scripting, it is very much not BASIC compatible with any retro BASIC platform.
qbsh won't teach you to program in #BASIC by using it, even though it is #opensource and written in QBASIC, but to that end, qbsh won't teach you how to code in BASIC any more than #bash will teach you to code in C.
Tonight I got to witness @[email protected] livestream attempting to get the #qbsh 1.1.0 floppy disk to work on #pop_os!
https://www.twitch.tv/mir_ppc/v/2101578506
#Linux #BASIC
Why early BASIC languages had line numbers https://garyluckenbaugh.substack.com/p/why-early-basic-languages-had-line #coding #retrocomputing #BASIC
Who's doing #opensource in #BASIC these days? Hit me with some source/project links.
I tried explaining dividing by zero to my son earlier today and used this #QBASIC code I had written to give an example.
#math #BASIC #programming
Every once and a while, I am reminded reminded that #python is the new #BASIC.
#programming
https://youtube.com/shorts/D-m-coCJ-os
The RENAME function isn't messing around with your pre-git version control.
#git #programming #BASIC #CPM
Why does this sound like instructions for one of those crazy #Sudoku challenges?
#programming #BASIC #CPM
Next time someone complains that life was so much easier before unicode, remind them how much and how often mixing lower and upper case somewhere broke things.
#programming #BASIC #unicode










