Survey - what language are you coming from?

[Pragma]

Don Clugston wrote:
> 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.
> 

15 seconds?  Now *that's* impressive.  I recall waiting for some games 
to load via tape that took 2-3 *minutes*.

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