[Info-vax] BASIC (was Re: 64-bit)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:07:04 -0500, mjos_examine wrote:

> ... I think BASIC did have a pretty good
> run in the 90's and early 2000's, particularly on the Windows desktop
> platform.

It had a role on 1980s micros, I’ll grant you that. The ability to switch 
on and start typing code made for quite a productive environment: type a 
statement with a line number to add it to your in-memory program, or 
without to execute the line immediately.

Nowadays, Jupyter notebooks offer a more modern environment for such 
incremental, even scratchpad-style programming. And Python is a more 
modern language without the limitations of BASIC.