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My first introduction to programming was BASIC on some 8-bit home computer. Sometimes I wonder what had happened if I had started with Pascal or Scheme instead.

I think a lot of developers own their carrier to BASIC being so accessible.

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Same here. I wrote a lot of code in my life but barely remember any of it. I do remember writing a 'madlibs' program as a kid and showing my family and being so proud. 100% the reason I'm doing what I do today is because of that day.

My analogue is writing a thing that could draw numbers and print them (I think it was just using the PRINT SCREEN button?), but it would make every line squiggly to emulate my (very bad) handwriting.

I think my goal was to make it write my homework, so that it would still look like my very bad handwriting, but more legible?

Family didn't care, but a classmate was very impressed :P

Thank you!

I've never thought of owing my career to BASIC being so accessible, but you're right, and it's a very beautiful thought.

I also wrote my first lines of code on QBasic 4.5 -- though my big teenage-years programming love was Turbo Pascal.

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