TORBA: Christians Must Enter the AI Arms Race
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Good lord, you can't even do BASIC right. It's
10 Print "insertlinehere"
20 Goto 10
In fairness, BASIC is a lot less common knowledge than Java or C++ syntax.
The world owes a lot to BASIC but not because it's a good language. I think just basically the interpreter being included everywhere encouraged a lot of people to write it -- including me.
It was the only interpreter included with my Grandpa's PC back in the day. Which was still running off 2 5.x" inch floppy drives.
Same difference with keyboards. The keyboard pattern we have is solely because the keyboard comes from typewriters which were built so that common letters wouldn't be next to each other, to prevent too many instances of the print arms swinging together and hitting each other. For typing purposes, it's actually a terrible design, but it's a design that worked for the technology of the time period, and we haven't really taken any effort to retrain the entire english-speaking population to use a better system.
If QWERTY were that bad, you could've retrained people sometime in the past 50 years. But it's ok.