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How a good business deal torpedoed BASIC's reputation

2 years ago by misk to c/retrocomputing

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A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language
xmanmonk 7 points 2 years ago

Some good Commodore history here.

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MajorHavoc 6 points 2 years ago

This brutal takedown of Commodore BASIC is objectively fair, but I'll still die on the hill defending Commodore BASIC, anyway, for nostalgia sake.

Also, it's nice to know that Dikstra put in an early vote of no confidence in my future programming abilities. Lol.

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