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RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha

Terry 6 Silver badge

Re: Beginners'

BASIC though was really built at a time when very few programmers were around. Pretty much everyone was a beginner or a white coated boffin. Even in 71 or so when I was taught programming at school most of it was in low-level numeric form. BASIC opened up programme writing to the masses. They were all beginners, almost by definition.

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