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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by AlexKochetkova@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that first artwork from the Atari BASIC book cover? I suffered enough with BASIC on my TI-99 and IBM XT, I can't imagine how rough the Atari version was.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Basic on commodore or turbo pascal on the icon, my first programming languages. Just started learning C++, shoulda started this 30 years ago

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Turbo Pascal was great and a big step up over what you could do with BASIC. Good luck with C++.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks, and yes it was