> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Michael Watterson
> Sent: 27 July 2011 09:50
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [AD] The Maximite Computer
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> On 26/07/2011 22:14, Don McKenzie wrote:
> > Remember the TRS80 computers from the late 1970's? What about
> programming in QBasic in the 90's? Well, this little
> > computer will bring back some memories. Even if you don't remember
those
> wonderful things from the early days of PC's,
> > you will still find the Maximite interesting, and useful!
> >
>=20
> Qbasic was terrible.
>=20
> In fact all BASIC was terrible till about VB5, when you could pretend
it
> wasn't basic.=20

I disagree.  The very early BASICs that didn't support any kind of
subroutines or functions were pretty nasty by todays standards,
requiring a most programs to have a complex mess of goto's.  The later
BASICs with functions, user defined types and even inline assembler is
some cases were (and still are) a perfectly useable language.

Mike

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