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Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 (AterSlash)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:11:16 GMT

I bought one of these in 1980 and it still works perfectly. What made it so amazing was that it had the BASIC programming language included with the ablity to create sound, a modem and other goodies.

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DNA Video: Pimp My Genome! Google Tech Talk with Andrew Hessel (Eye on DNA)

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:05:00 GMT

Google Tech Talks May 3, 2007 ABSTRACT DNA is a programming language for living cells. The cell's basic operating system, or genome, directs functions like growth and reproduction, energy utilization, and the production of useful compounds like ethanol or penicillin. With genetic engineering, new functions can be added to cells or broken metabolic pathways repaired. Until recently,...

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May 1 is BASIC day (CrunchGear)

Thu, 01 May 2008 21:58:11 GMT

On this day in 1964 John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz ran the first BASIC program. Designed to be an easy-to-use programming language for students, BASIC has stood the test of time and is probably the first language many of us mastered in our early geek years. The two also created the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, [...]

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44 years of BASIC ([Geeks are Sexy] technology news)

Thu, 01 May 2008 15:46:11 GMT

By Lyle Bateman Contributing Writer, [GAS] On May 1st, 1964, in the early morning, the world's first BASIC compiler began to run. The “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” was designed to sit on the opposite end of the programming spectrum from the more complex, scientifically based languages of the time, such as Fortran. It...

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FlyGrid.Net Visual Basic Programming Language Freeware Download (inBlogger)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:18:02 GMT

Freeware Download Great things indeed come in small packages. FlyGrid.Net is a fast, lightweight and highly customizable .Net DataGrid/Tree control which completely manages the data, offering outstanding performance and flexibili FlyGrid.Net Visual Basic Programming Language More … FlyGrid.Net Ninda

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Burn your own RSS feeds (David Davies' Weblog)

daviesda@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:19:01 GMT

There are two people who probably don't know it but to them I owe most of what I know about computer programming. One of them is Dave Winer. I learnt to program using BASIC in the early 80’s but I learnt to love programming when I discovered Frontier in the mid 90’s. Ah those were [...]

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Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC (Coding Horror)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Edsger Dijkstra had this to say about Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code: It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. I'm sure he was exaggerating here for effect; as much as I admire his 1972 "The Humble...

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Build a Program Now! Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition: Book review (Windows Watch)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:36 GMT

Visual Basic is a good choice for anyone wanting to make a start with computer programming. While purists may think that C is a better language it can be hard to get started and text only programs do lack instant...

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Oklahoma Data Leak (Planet Intertwingly)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:30:25 GMT

Usually I don't bother blogging about these, but this one is particularly bad. Anyone with with basic SQL knowledge could have registered anyone he wanted as a sex offender. One of the cardinal rules of computer programming is to never trust your input. This holds especially true when your input comes from users, and even more so when it comes...

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C-jump will teach your kids how to program (Coolest Gadgets)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:00:29 GMT

Programming has never been my forte. While I can do enough HTML to put together a very basic website, however, I couldn’t code my way out of a wet paper bag. Now had this board game been out when I was younger, that might be a different story. The C-jump Computer Programming Board Game teaches kids 11 and up the basics of C, C++ and Java coding. The “game helps to...

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Omikron Basic 8.5 (Softpedia - Latest Mac software)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:16:01 GMT

Omikron Basic - BASIC programming language environment

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This Day: January 23, 1982: Bill Gates Knows a Good Thing When He Sees It (Apple Matters)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:22:16 GMT

Steve Jobs knew that for the Mac to be successful it would need third party developers, and the most crucial third party developer in the late pre-Macintosh days was Microsoft. Steve was particularly interested in getting a version of the programming language BASIC specifically made for the Mac. Of course…

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January 23, 1982: Bill Gates Knows a Good Thing When He Sees It (This Day in Apple History)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:21:23 GMT

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Eric Normand: My two cents (Planet Lisp)

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:41:39 GMT

Common Lisp is the most fun programming language I’ve ever programmed in.And I’ve programmed in a few: C Java Python Perl BASIC Haskell Pascal C# I like Lisp. I think it has a lot to offer. I also think it has a lot of room to grow — so much potential! People criticize Lisp a lot, especially those who haven't used it. I also hear a lot of people getting defensive about Lisp, even...

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Functional programming (OS Galaxy)

donotreply@osgalaxy.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenó) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:03:29 GMT

As a programmer, I started quite early, when I learnt GW-BASIC on my sister’s PC, and then continuing (yes I know that it's more a regression, but..) with the C64 BASIC and then QBASIC on MS-DOS 6. Probably most of you wouldn't consider BASIC a programming language, but I was 7 years old, it was enough already. I then learnt VisualBASIC 5 through a...

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Multi-Edit Lite 2006 10.03.00 (Soft32.com - Windows - New Releases)

Fri, 25 May 2007 08:30:39 GMT

This IDE provides powerful programming thats Lite on your Pocketbook.Providing Intelligent Language Support with such features as Smart Indenting, code templates, brace/construct matching and auto-commenting, as you type! Language sensitive code highlighting for any language! Function tagging supports ASP, Ada, Aspect, BASIC, VB, PERL, Java, Javascript, FORTRAN, Delphi, and many more. MeLite...

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A Wild Eloquence (Whimsy's Enclave)

Wed, 23 May 2007 01:03:51 GMT

... dialects. Luminaries such as Edsger Dijkstra would claim that COBOL "crippled the mind" and that BASIC created "mentally mutilated programmers". There are certainly parallels between programs and poems. One of the reasons that I write clear, commented code is that I may have to go back and understand it some day. No less my poetry which, on re-reading after a year or two, I wonder what in...

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WPF/e and IBM's PC Jr (Microsoft .Net and Smalltalk)

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:17:20 GMT

... great for business *and* for games (the most popular language for writing games was Microsoft's GW-BASIC ). Microsoft today finds itself in a similar situation to IBM in the 1980’s. technology changes - the Internet and a deployable program model - potentially challenge their core business until recently, this wasn't a major problem because Internet connections were too slow and Java applets...

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And The Razzie Goes to... (The IESB)

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:32:52 GMT

Although they decided to spread the loathe around, voters for this year's 27th Annual RAZZIE® Awards clearly placed Sharon Stone's unintentionally hilarious who-dunnit Basic Instinct 2 head and hooters above the competition.

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I went bald too, so leave Britney alone (Planck's Constant)

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:00:45 GMT

... immersed myself in Borland's IDE and rewrote every single program that I had previously written in BASIC, COBOL, and Fortran into Pascal. There was no sense in re-writing those programs that I had written in Lisp, FORTH and APL since they were perfectly suited for their respective applications. And when Object Oriented Pascal came out I took to it like a liberal to Kool Aid. With my body...

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