[nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...
Frank
pirrone at localnet.com
Wed Apr 18 16:53:22 EDT 2007
John Nichel wrote:
> Robert Meyer wrote:
>> Real Programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers
>> write in BASIC after the age of 12.
>>
>
> Come on now, cut me some slack. I lived in back woods Louisiana when
> I was around that age. BASIC (and my trusty Atari 800XL) were about
> all I had access to.
>
Hah! Not only did I have to walk miles and miles, uphill both ways, to
school, but my father made me program my Atari in ValForth. One time he
caught me compiling a program with the 6502 assembler and he cut off my
RC Cola for a week...
Frank
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