16 thoughts on “This is literally the way I started programming.”
GWBasic on an Atari PC–1 in 1986 was the first time I touched any languages. I messed around with Pascal a bit, then a bit of C, and then got sidetracked by hardware and networking and Linux. At least those skills came in handy when tackling CGI and Perl and shell scripting. I’ve dabbled in Python since, but only ever learned enough coding for specific issues I ran into while SysAdmining
Insult-based programming … exactly. Both insults to the machine, and (as above) insults by way of the machine to the people who engineered the machine/system/language/Guido Van Rossum/Whatever. To this day, my coding productivity is linearly related to the number of times per minute I call the machine some filthy name.
Same for me. Zx 81 in 1982. 9 months later I found an editor for my first program, Argolath. 2 months later, I had another editor for the second program, Rigel.
Funny enough, recently, someone contacted to know if I was OK to put Argolath and Rigel online and he wanted an interview.
Michael Rainey Explicatives? Back in the 70es, as a wiz teen I was inventing how to teach computers never having taught peers. The computer was the main audience to which things needed appropriate explanation. It’s a race between the need to tell peers how you did it, and the faster, simpler satisfaction of letting the behavior of computer you tamed wow or perhaps just serve [the public].
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GWBasic on an Atari PC–1 in 1986 was the first time I touched any languages. I messed around with Pascal a bit, then a bit of C, and then got sidetracked by hardware and networking and Linux. At least those skills came in handy when tackling CGI and Perl and shell scripting. I’ve dabbled in Python since, but only ever learned enough coding for specific issues I ran into while SysAdmining
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Apparently one can take that further.
shop.oreilly.com – Programming with curses
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Lol!! Me too 😀
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Insult-based programming … exactly. Both insults to the machine, and (as above) insults by way of the machine to the people who engineered the machine/system/language/Guido Van Rossum/Whatever. To this day, my coding productivity is linearly related to the number of times per minute I call the machine some filthy name.
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Same for me. Zx 81 in 1982. 9 months later I found an editor for my first program, Argolath. 2 months later, I had another editor for the second program, Rigel.
Funny enough, recently, someone contacted to know if I was OK to put Argolath and Rigel online and he wanted an interview.
I then discovered Argolath was the first french-published RPG. The name Argolath has been later on stolen shamelessly by Blizzard Entertainment (yes, nothing less) in WoW. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/q4ZMNEr9E_63muwRlMne3ZXXVXS5s0IXW5RCHeoRx3wF-icwrFaiQ0NNuFsHazADC-9vsLfrxbs
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Olivier Malinur wow that’s awesome. Is it playable via an emulation?
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Yes. As it shows, it’s a software called eightyone. The game has the reputation of being very difficult.
Édit : sorry for the previous post, I was talking while typing.
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Maybe it needs to go up on archive.org and into a browser emulation. archive.org – Historical Software Collection : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
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1974, HP 9100
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BBC computer. Awesome
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“Waterfall” isn’t the development schedule. It originally referred to the stream of explicatives pouring out of coders’ mouths.
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Michael Rainey Explicatives? Back in the 70es, as a wiz teen I was inventing how to teach computers never having taught peers. The computer was the main audience to which things needed appropriate explanation. It’s a race between the need to tell peers how you did it, and the faster, simpler satisfaction of letting the behavior of computer you tamed wow or perhaps just serve [the public].
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This is bugging me…would the correct coding be:
10 Print “hello”
20 Goto 10
Been so long since I tried BASIC. I think the “!” Could even substitute for “print”
I know that’s not to point of the pic, but like I said, its bugging me.
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Yes it needed quotes around the string.
From memory I think it was ? that could be substituted for PRINT in some versions of BASIC.
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All I remember is:
load “”
(I think)
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Commodore 64?
LOAD “Filename”,8
Unless you had a tape drive
LOAD “Filename”,1
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