Article View: comp.lang.basic.misc
Article #71Re: Language on the GE-225? [Was: Slashdot/Wired article on May 1st in Basic history]
From: Happy Trails
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 03:45
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 03:45
19 lines
2016 bytes
2016 bytes
On Fri, 09 May 2008 13:57:06 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) (or some bottom-poster) wrote: >>One of the things that I liked >>about BASIC was that it could do everything that FORTRAN could do plus >>it could handle text. Although you could handle text in FORTRAN IV it >>wasn't easy. I programmed in Fortran 4 on IBM 360 mainframes in 68-70 doing actuarial work for an insurance company. I used F4 to format and typeset the actual pages that made up the agents rate books for the various policies we sold. Without using any whiteout, hahaha. If you think you are a good programmer, try doing that. The hard part was to get it to print nothing instead of "0.0" when you had a zero value in a column, and not screw up the line/column spacing. After a while it got pretty easy to do any kind of formatted page.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<886a24pjbhiife54jh8f4koind3db70o8f@4ax.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!aioe.org!not-for-mailReferences:
<5d3988b0-f0ee-475e-9e30-5071a087d39b@v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <68g0i4F2sueu9U1@mid.individual.net> <16c6bf80-d96e-4ce9-a968-bc00e01168c7@d19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <68j3fuF2ss16kU1@mid.individual.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 10c949,12a8b0ccd6b79f0 X-Google-Thread: 108c83,413c346ae4956e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c949,gid108c83,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Happy Trails <nomail@myplace.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.misc,aus.computers Subject: Re: Language on the GE-225? [Was: Slashdot/Wired article on May 1st in Basic history] Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:45:55 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 20 Message-ID: <886a24pjbhiife54jh8f4koind3db70o8f@4ax.com> References: <5d3988b0-f0ee-475e-9e30-5071a087d39b@v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <68g0i4F2sueu9U1@mid.individual.net> <16c6bf80-d96e-4ce9-a968-bc00e01168c7@d19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <68j3fuF2ss16kU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2YaT85ZEuzIfEoRSHWwgzQ.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.640