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Last Monday I released the 59th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, my dear monthly magazine about code, developers, and society, and this month I talked about BASIC in all of its flavors. As part of the preparation of this issue, I dived into the world of Minimal BASIC code, the one with source code line numbers, the one that would start immediately after powering up your computer, and the one that brings endless nostalgia.

I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.

The D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.

I’ve learnt lately that there are many standards for the BASIC programming language.

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

Quick update about my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

Here’s an update of the current status of my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

I remember that, late 2004, I was asked by my employer to evaluate the migration of a huge (huge, did I say huge?

Somewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992: