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Doing it for the kids, man

Doing it for the kids, man

Posted Nov 17, 2006 13:47 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Doing it for the kids, man by lysse
Parent article: Doing it for the kids, man: Children's laptop inspires open source projects (LinuxWorld)

are there any other languages you're referring to?

Various dialects of BASIC. Don't laugh. It used to be a very common way of implementing real microcomputer and minicomputer apps (which typically were much simpler in those days than now, so the inherent deficiencies in the language design did not matter so much).


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