Re: Simplicity
"Gary Labowitz" <glabowitz@comc ast.net> wrote in message news:<-PudnTP9IMUqvKbc RVn-vA@comcast.com> ...
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> I'm not quibbling with your parsing. But I was studying BASIC in 1956 (my
> first year in college) and I think I remember seeing it referred to as
> "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" then. I have always been
> under the impression that this was it's acronym right from the start. (Built
> my first computer in 1954, but it was hardwired and didn't have
> programming.)
>
> I'm only saying that this is my recollection; it has been 48 years, so take
> it for what it might be worth.[/color]
In this case, your recollection is clearly flawed -- in 1956, BASIC
simply didn't exist. About the only thing I can think of at that time
that _might_ be open to being mis-remembered as BASIC would have been
one of the early versions of FORTRAN -- and even that's quite a
stretch.
--
Later,
Jerry.
The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
"Gary Labowitz" <glabowitz@comc ast.net> wrote in message news:<-PudnTP9IMUqvKbc RVn-vA@comcast.com> ...
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> I'm not quibbling with your parsing. But I was studying BASIC in 1956 (my
> first year in college) and I think I remember seeing it referred to as
> "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" then. I have always been
> under the impression that this was it's acronym right from the start. (Built
> my first computer in 1954, but it was hardwired and didn't have
> programming.)
>
> I'm only saying that this is my recollection; it has been 48 years, so take
> it for what it might be worth.[/color]
In this case, your recollection is clearly flawed -- in 1956, BASIC
simply didn't exist. About the only thing I can think of at that time
that _might_ be open to being mis-remembered as BASIC would have been
one of the early versions of FORTRAN -- and even that's quite a
stretch.
--
Later,
Jerry.
The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
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