BASIC is 50 years old!

[Alvaro]

(04-15-2014 01:16 AM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  I wouldn't say BASIC is nearly gone. Far from it, there must be hundreds of versions of BASIC for all kinds of devices today

What I want to stay is that BASIC is nearly gone from the devices where are most needed, in Calculators.
There is another "world" beyhond all that math´s that calculators are "Full filled" today. At University level you will apreciate very much a easy and quick programing language.
At University, outside the Math´s teaching, you will need something to deal with problems that are not present in Math´s Libraries and that is not a few things, that is a lot of things.
Also, in real world, you will need something handy to do simple tasks and for that is BASIC a ideal programing language.

About of "hundreds of versions of BASIC", that is also the questions: Why there is so many variations, most of them are not directly compatible, thought the differences of capabilities of each version is minor but the incompability is a major issue. So, what is the point of so many "versions"?

About FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) I had to learn it at University and I like it very much, specialy because it was sensitiv for "programing" errors. Before you got the Program running, it could be sometime very stressing.