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Why Johnny Can't Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-my-day dept.

GoCanes writes "Salon has an article named 'Why Johnny Can't Code,' an interesting examination of the dearth of line programming languages available today. At first I wanted to read this and say aha, here's a simple line oriented language that's available through open source, but after reading the article I couldn't find any. And being an old fart, I remember the days spent with edlin and basic."

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  1. Re:passworded article by Mprx · · Score: 5, Informative

    Visit http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html to get the cookie first.

  2. FreeBASIC... by kerashi · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you really want to play with BASIC, you still can. There is Freebasic, at http://www.freebasic.net/, a GPL'ed open source BASIC compiler.