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Originally Posted by Thorham
Then I'm sure you know how limited those 8 bit BASICs are in comparison to things like assembler and C. What I want to know is why did you go back?
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Because it's more fun, purely and simply. It's easy to knock up a very quick prototype of an algorithm in BASIC. It doesn't require
any set up code - no window creation, immediate access to a graphics surface...
And it also changes the way you think about your code. Using line numbers constrains you wonderfully, resulting in very concise code. I wrote a simple R-Type engine in 25 lines of BASIC, for example. I love it. The best part is that I wrote the entire interpreter and the IDE myself!
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