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Re:Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language for Unix and Wind... by the_af on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:09PM (#26290600)
> You could do the same for C64 basic but that was all peeks/pokes

That was my beef with C64 BASIC. Once you start peeking and poking in order to do anything interesting, are you really programming in BASIC?

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Re:Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language for Unix and Wind... by anotherfish on Sunday February 28, 2021 @03:33AM (#26291688)
Yeah, the whole peek/poke thing turned BASIC into a slow assembly language scripting language rather than actual BASIC language support. Still, it likely made the transition to assembly programming a little more straightforward for many.
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