(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.Mmm. Assembly.
Still, Basic was great fun and gave thousands of ordinary folks access to something new and exciting.
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.
