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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Some dialects of BASIC had more structured control flow.