when I was still saving programs on tape. Assembly lacks many of the things BASIC lacks though. Wrote my own program that would take BASIC source code without line numbers and with structured control structures and compile to BASIC. Also got PASCAL and C compilers, wrote a lot of Turbo Pascal for the PC in the late 1980s, got into the C habit when I went to college, picked up Java in my PhD program and I've been coding it ever since.
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when I was still saving programs on tape. Assembly lacks many of the things BASIC lacks though. Wrote my own program that would take BASIC source code without line numbers and with structured control structures and compile to BASIC. Also got PASCAL and C compilers, wrote a lot of Turbo Pascal for the PC in the late 1980s, got into the C habit when I went to college, picked up Java in my PhD program and I've been coding it ever since.