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Re:BASIC at 50 by mathattack on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @03:15PM (#7555340)
Same, though lots of us wanted to skip Pascal and C. :-)

It's a strange language to celebrate in retrospect in that it lacks the street cred of both academics and hard core engineers. To your point, in a sense it's like remembering your first bike.

Of course the first mechanic of that first bike made his way to the Dartmouth presidency.

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