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Microsoft open-sources GW-BASIC – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Neat!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I learned to program in gw basic when I was 12. Also spent hours typing in listings from magazines. Fun times.

Moved on to turbo pascal after a few years and got into assembly from there. Didn’t get to c++ until college.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This post comes a bit late - Microsoft announced this four years ago. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fair enough. It seems that I (and the author of the article) ended up being a little more retro than initially intended. 😅