The Broken BASIC Years (opens in new tab)

I polled Mastodon people a few weeks back: Twice as many people said their home computer’s BASIC did something illogical as said it did the right thing. What gives? The de facto problem BASIC was refined over several years in the mid-1960s as part of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS) running on a GE mainframe. […]