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How a good business deal torpedoed BASIC's reputation (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] xmanmonk@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

Some good Commodore history here.

[โ€“] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

This brutal takedown of Commodore BASIC is objectively fair, but I'll still die on the hill defending Commodore BASIC, anyway, for nostalgia sake.

Also, it's nice to know that Dikstra put in an early vote of no confidence in my future programming abilities. Lol.