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BASIC is 50 years old!
04-15-2014, 08:41 AM
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(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. Smile
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BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-09-2014, 02:32 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-09-2014, 07:20 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-10-2014, 02:39 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Egan Ford - 04-10-2014, 10:27 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-10-2014, 11:11 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Thomas Klemm - 04-11-2014, 12:56 AM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-11-2014, 12:18 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-13-2014, 01:04 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Les Bell - 04-14-2014, 01:30 AM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - HP67 - 04-10-2014, 03:38 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-10-2014, 05:48 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Alvaro - 04-10-2014, 09:23 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - peacecalc - 04-13-2014, 11:43 AM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Alvaro - 04-14-2014, 09:03 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-14-2014, 11:32 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-15-2014, 01:16 AM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Alvaro - 04-15-2014 08:41 AM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-15-2014, 01:54 PM
RE: BASIC is 50 years old! - Don Shepherd - 04-15-2014, 02:13 PM



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