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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by reitanqild on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:38PM (#11638158)
> How much simpler could it be really?

The howto could be a whole lot simpler it seems, see this example, helpfully provided by neckro23 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11637866

Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by qb45 on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:54AM (#11643950)
Welcome to the Internet and let me be your guide:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=sarcasm

I sincerely wish that the post you linked was sarcastic as well, but it was probably serious which makes the (former) QBasic programmer in me a little bit sad.

Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by reitanqild on Saturday May 07, 2016 @07:52AM (#11649235)
I'm smiling now :-)

I thought it was a well intended explanation that just wasn't detailed enough.