Another History of BASIC

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:36 pm

A pretty neat read : http://dotnetmasters.com/historyofbasic.htm

Truth_Seeker · Post by **Truth_Seeker** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:33 pm

Thanks Karbon for giving us the link, I enjoyed reading about the history of basic and c.

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:53 pm

It cracked me up

ESPECIALLY the Java comments in the C history.

srod · Post by **srod** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:41 pm

1997 – Taking the advice of hallucinating industry analysts, Corel decides to rewrite all their applications, including WordPerfect, in Java. The end result is the first known word processor that is slower to use than a typewriter.

Priceless!

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:56 pm

Edit: The C article is pretty good as well.

Steve Elliott · Post by **Steve Elliott** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:34 pm

LOL!