Survey - what language are you coming from?

[Don Clugston]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Pragma wrote:
>>
>> I cut my teeth on C64 Basic*
> ...
>> (*I see that I'm not alone here - it's like those things were built to 
>> train new coders)
> 
> I remember being so excited when the C64 magazines arrived in the 
> mail--a friend and I would spend all day entering the printed code to 
> play the new game they contained.  It wasn't my first experience with 
> programming, but it was certainly one of the most significant.
> 
> 
> Sean

POKE 53280,0: POKE 53281,0
Those were the days.
A lot of my early programming was refactoring the code while typing it 
in because I was such a slow typist.

I never used C64 BASIC much -- I switched to asm very quickly because it 
was higher level (!) I wrote my own editor/assembler, which let me have 
labels and variable names more than 2 characters long. It booted off a 
cassette drive in 15 seconds using a turboload routine (I was too poor 
to own a disk drive). It's still one of the programs I'm proudest of.