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What Was Your First Programming Language?
07-10-2015, 02:46 AM
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language?
(07-09-2015 10:54 PM)Les Bell Wrote:  I actually have a CBASIC version of that program, but I won't bore everyone by posting it. It's noticeably different from the Microsoft BASIC version in that CBASIC had a WHILE statement and didn't rely on GOTO - or line numbers, for that matter. It also used decimal arithmetic, making it particularly suitable for financial applications. And in the comments, I noted that its RANDOMIZE statement uses the delay in responding to a preceding INPUT statement to seed the RND function.

I can't say that I made use of the RANDOMIZE statement in CBASIC but I depended on the decimal arithmetic for my work, the structured programming was also great to have in BASIC. The compiler ran quite fast but the object code (really p-code) wasn't so zippy. Still, for what I used it for it was an excellent language in its day.

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