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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 13:38:41 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <lV5Ja.24038$T37.2702@fe05.atl2.webusenet.com>,
Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:

> Basic was intended to be a simple language, but intentions of the creator
> has nothing to do with it.

The major revolution with Basic wasn't the language itself (which
really was nothing but a stripped-down version of Fortran; later
strings were added though), but the environment: for the first time,
the programmer didn't need to store his source code on punched cards
or paper tape and submit it to some batch queue, but could instead
sit at an interactive terminal, getting almost immediate response to
syntax errors/etc.  And THAT aspect of Basic is ubiqutous today:
hardly anoyne do batch programming anymore....

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