Which at the end he said: 'All the pseudo-code i gave I know a professor who taught an algorithms class The purpose is not 'to learn an archaic procedural language,' but rather 'to learn a simple, relatively unstructured algorithmic language that allows straightforward, immediate coding and unfetteredly illustrates the principles of pure math and logic without unnecessary translation into the structure of the programming language itself.' The closest example that I can think of is Scheme, but that language requires thinking recursively to do anything significant. Logic, and only by math and logic: All of this is Running an experiment in coin flipping, or making a dotĬhange its position on a screen, propelled by math and Manner you could duplicate with pencil and paper - say, Typing in a simple algorithm yourself, seeingĮxactly how the computer calculates and iterates in a

Remotely like them can be done with any language other thanīASIC. Universal, pedagogically interesting - and nothing even Those textbook exercises were easy, effective, To quote the author of the article, David Brin: Thank you for your reply, but I'm afraid that Fortran, while a worthy language in its own right, is simply not suited for the purpose described in the article. You'll just have to learn python instead. I justĬhecked FINK and it doesn't seem to have one. What you need is a compiler, not an emulator. Still used today, for the simple reason that it isĪctually really quite good at what it does. Procedural language, nothing beats FORTRAN. Johnny should learn python or ruby or even shell Does anybody know where I can find an emulator for one of these varieties of BASIC that will run on Mac OS X on a PowerPC processor (without requiring an NEC PC-8001 mkII or Apple II system unit to create a ROM image)? Nevertheless, I'd still rather nostalgically rather program in either NEC's N80-BASIC or Apple'sĪpplesoft BASIC. NEC PC-8001 mkII, and would like to rewrite it in a line programming BASIC language on Mac OS X.Ĭhipmunk Basic for Mac OS, which piqued my interest-I am definitely going to get my hands wet with this one over the coming weekend.

I once wrote a checkbook accounting program in N80-BASIC on the old After reading the article, I developed an urge to code in one of the original unstructured line programming varieties ofīASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) (as opposed to Visual BASIC or an alternative structured programming language) on

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