(November 27, 2009 at 9:11 pm)Synackaon Wrote: BASIC sucks balls. Procedural programming at its worst with even worse garbage collection and shoddier coding practices. An in the words of one of my CS heroes:
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. " -- Edsger Dijkstra

I wrote a lot of Basic on the Sinclair Spectrum and the BBC Master, then I went on to assembler on both. After a while I began to sell a lot of machine-code software to BBC magazines, and for some years I had my own regular slot in Beebug magazine. Assembler became second nature. However, if I'd gone on to another high-level language, maybe I would have found that Basic had spoilt me. I can't tell.
Still, Basic was great fun and gave thousands of ordinary folks access to something new and exciting.

Wow! Respect Alfred

(November 29, 2009 at 7:53 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Wow! Respect Alfred

Thank you, good sir. May your stack never overflow.

(November 29, 2009 at 6:37 am)Pope Alfred Wrote: I wrote a lot of Basic on the Sinclair Spectrum and the BBC Master, then I went on to assembler on both. After a while I began to sell a lot of machine-code software to BBC magazines, and for some years I had my own regular slot in Beebug magazine. Assembler became second nature. However, if I'd gone on to another high-level language, maybe I would have found that Basic had spoilt me. I can't tell.
Still, Basic was great fun and gave thousands of ordinary folks access to something new and exciting.

Mmm. Assembly.

TRS80 introduced me at age six to basic. I moved from that to Java when I was eight, then to Python when I was 12. I barely remember anything of basic, except that it is a bitch to get my head out of the linear procedural ass and think about metaprogramming through metaclasses and polymorphic code.

(November 29, 2009 at 7:55 am)Pope Alfred Wrote: May your stack never overflow.

*Head explodes*

(November 29, 2009 at 8:09 am)fr0d0 Wrote:

(November 29, 2009 at 7:55 am)Pope Alfred Wrote: May your stack never overflow.

*Head explodes*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_%28data_structure%29

Be enlightened.

Thanks ..I was joking

Programming and art - that's an odd combination Synackaon!? (I take it the stuff on DA is yours?)