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New Anyone want a fun porting project?
https://blog.codinghorror.com/updating-the-single-most-influential-book-of-the-basic-era/
... in 1973, DEC published an anthology, 101 BASIC Computer Games. The book quickly went into a second printing, for a total of 10,000 copies sold. โ€œThat was far more books than there were computers around, so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer.โ€

It went on to be the first computer book to sell a million copies. Quite a legacy.

I think we owe it to the world to bring this book up to date using modern, memory safe languages that embody the original spirit of BASIC, and modern programming practices including subroutines.

So let's do this. Please join us on GitHub, where we're updating those original 101 BASIC games in memory safe, general purpose scripting languages:

Java
Python
C#
VB.NET
JavaScript
Ruby
Delphi / Object Pascal
Perl
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Drew
New AdminiScott could probably do this in his sleep.
He must still have the OO "shapes" stuff around here somewhere...

DOS Batch
Java
perl
Python
Ruby
SQL
PL1
Foxbase
semaphore
abacus
etc.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Possibly.
Life's too short to code for free at this point though. ๐Ÿ™ƒ
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New "Never write code you're not being paid for"
The battle cry of every programming/development manager who ever caught their team writing their own bug tracker.
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Drew
Expand Edited by drook Jan. 4, 2022, 04:55:22 PM EST
New "so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer"
No. That's when Radio Shack TRS-80 computer became available with Basic. Wiki:
Radio Shack sold over 10,000 TRS-80s in its first one and a half months of sales, 55,000 in its first year, and over 200,000 during the product's lifetime;
I bought one in 1979.
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
     Anyone want a fun porting project? - (drook) - (4)
         AdminiScott could probably do this in his sleep. - (Another Scott) - (2)
             Possibly. - (malraux) - (1)
                 "Never write code you're not being paid for" - (drook)
         "so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer" - (a6l6e6x)

What a bizarre 'field' ... all about 'Information' - and nobody has any you'd trust!
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