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submitted 7 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/retrocomputing

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I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.

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[-] diplodocus 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks, BASIC, for teaching me so much I had to later unlearn in order to not be a garbage programmer.

[-] dan@upvote.au 8 points 7 months ago

The first time I tried another programming language, I was confused as to how to write code without using GOTO.

[-] vext01 1 points 7 months ago

Some dialects of BASIC had more structured control flow.

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