BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Commodore 64 Ultimate Starlight
De:       Luca Saiu
Data:     Fri, 8 May 2026 10:23:53 +0200
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On 2026-05-06 at 16:08 +0000, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:

> But it ended up being less of a disaster than you might think, because
> it practically forced people to learn assembly. A huge number of
> legendary programmers got their start because BASIC was too slow or
> lacked features.

This is a very good insight.

In my case it did not lead me to learn assembly in the short term (I had
no access to books in a language I could read well enough), but it did
teach me dissatisfaction with programming languages, also a useful
attitude.  Thinking in abstractions at a level higher than what exists
in the software, and yearning to implement them.

-- 
Luca Saiu  https://ageinghacker.net

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