The collection of posts from Lifehacker on Friday included one about the availability of an open source implementation of the BASIC interpreter for the Commodore 64, allowing its use as a scripting language.
The post's screen shot of an infinite loop "Hello World" program, running inside a Darwin shell, is especially amusing.
As someone whose first programming experiences involved coding on that machine and Radio Shack TRS-80s over 25 years ago, I felt just a wee bit nostalgic, recalling learning about
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to code a complete corporate blogging application in Commodore BASIC, though. :-)
The post's screen shot of an infinite loop "Hello World" program, running inside a Darwin shell, is especially amusing.
As someone whose first programming experiences involved coding on that machine and Radio Shack TRS-80s over 25 years ago, I felt just a wee bit nostalgic, recalling learning about
PEEK and POKE calls and making sprites move across the screen. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to code a complete corporate blogging application in Commodore BASIC, though. :-)
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