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30 years later, QBasic is still the best

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Re: 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

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originally Facebook was created to find people like this

originally Facebook was created to find out who is hot or not ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#FaceMash >They "trust me", Dumb fucks

Yikes, never saw those blog entries before. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...

Re: 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

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Pascal and related languages use the notation x := 5 I have heard that this was to mimic (in ASCII) the look of an arrow: x ⇐ 5

My first thought was, if they wanted an arrow why wouldn’t they go with: x But of course, that means “less than or equal to”. You could do: x But I suppose the mere presence of the “less than” symbol is weird in context. (Although, maybe not inherently weirder than using the equals sign for something other than equality?) Perhaps we would have been better off if we’d all just agreed early on, that @, #, or ~ should r…

The original 1963 version of ASCII had a left-arrow (←) symbol, but it was replaced with underscore (_) in the 1965 version.

Re: 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

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> Just using a subset of Python language you can do anything you need, and with less syntactic noise. Okay, I'll bite. How does one check for keyboard input without blocking in Python? And remember, you said "simpler" and "subset", so do your best to avoid imports.

Turtle is packaged with the default python distribution, for as long as I can remember, so I don't find importing it that much of concern in this case. It is like importing math.

That doesn't answer the question.
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