Been thinking about software preservation.
BASIC is not really the most ideal application for software preservation, it just so happens that many magazines with type in code have been archived.
I wonder what a software preservation language would require.
The people on the retro computing forum seem to think it would be a very simple to implement virtual machine.
Alfred M. Szmidt
in reply to vidak • • •Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽
in reply to vidak • • •You still need something you can write & ship applications in, and BASIC is very terse compared to most languages. A similar program is often half the length of a (more readable) Python or C program.
A VM doesn't help anyone but language implementers.
The down side of BASIC is every dialect is different & opinionated. Maybe that's good, diversity is immunity to viruses & AI slop.
#basic
Alfred M. Szmidt
in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽 • • •@mdhughes You've must have not programmed enough BASIC to say such a silly thing.
@vidak