Borland Turbo Basic(dosdays.co.uk)
92 points by sssilver | 50 comments
DOS Days page on the history of Borland's Turbo BASIC, a BASIC compiler for MS-DOS that started as BASIC/Z by Bob Zale and later became PowerBASIC.
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Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?(thoreaubasic.com)
65 points by Gorsefound | 33 comments
Homepage for Thoreau BASIC 3.2, a free 64-bit GW-BASIC-inspired interpreter with x64 JIT for Windows and bare-metal UEFI, with downloads and documentation.
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
How I fell in love with Erlang(boragonul.com)
366 points by asabil | 215 comments
A personal blog post recounting the author's path from Commodore-64 BASIC to discovering and loving Erlang, starting with how mutable assignment like X = X + 1 confused him.
Thomas E. Kurtz has died(computerhistory.org)
556 points by 1986 | 137 comments
Computer History Museum blog post in memoriam of Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), co-creator of the BASIC programming language at Dartmouth.