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Thomas E. Kurtz has died

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613 points 1986 | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 22:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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dlachausse ◴[14 Nov 24 23:21 UTC] No.42142356[source]▶
Like most of the programmers of my generation, BASIC was the first language I learned. BASIC was so pervasive in the 80s and 90s. Nearly every computer came with a copy of some flavor of BASIC. Even my 6th grade math textbook had an appendix with educational math games in the form of BASIC source code listings.

So long and thanks for all the fish Dr. Kurtz!

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1. runevault ◴[15 Nov 24 01:14 UTC] No.42143049[source]▶
I ended up using multiple versions of basic because the various boot discs we had came with different versions. Off the top of my head I remember BASIC, BASICA, and QBASIC. Not that I remember the differences between the flavors any more.