Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Ed Vance
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Mar 14 2024 12:33 pm

 EV> On a Prodigy(sp?) CD years ago was a C- - Program and I 
 EV> think some instructions for C - - too.

I remember seeing Sphinx C-- around in the 90s, I don't think I ever actually learned it though.  By then I probably acquired a copy of Turbo C++ 3 from a friend.  Looks like Sphinx C-- is still around: https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/cmm/

 EV> NOW C=64 BASIC and IBM DOS 2.11 BASIC I DUG.

I totally missed the C64 era but DOS 2.11 / BASIC era was all mine!  Our Tandy 100HX had MS-DOS 2.11 in ROM which I still think is one of the coolest features in a PC from that era - it booted so fast, and without a boot disk!  And programming in GW-BASIC, or IBM BASIC(A), was absolutely where I got hooked on computers!  I remember seeing BASIC code and thinking "these are English words, I can understand this!" was fantastic.  Though of course it was the surface-level stuff like PRINT and GOTO that came so easy - I never did develop REAL expertise in BASIC.  It was a fantastic launch pad into computer programming though!


Chris/akacastor

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