bobgvarchibald, 28 days ago

@arstechnica i wrote a basic payroll program using BASIC wayback in the mid 90’s. it was a hoot!

JGR0, 28 days ago

@arstechnica The box art for Atari Basic goes so hard.

cyberlyra, 28 days ago

@arstechnica BASIC was my first programming language, after playing around with Logo. I remember writing little programs to get the computer to make sounds like music while my classmates struggled with 100 PRINT "Hello." Such a great introduction to programming and interacting with machines.

jenselbaek, 28 days ago

@arstechnica Basic is not the first computer language on IBM computers. It was the much more complicated COBOL. BASIC was not for real business. My first encounter with computers was BASIC. It was just an introduction language

tokensane, 28 days ago

@arstechnica
This was my first computer programming book.

https://www.carousell.sg/p/vintage-1980s-illustrating-basic-a-simple-programming-language-1196314968/