BASIC? BASIC!
Oh joy. Childhood is back again.
See, the first computer I’ve got was a Commodore C64 (first, the original one, but it had a hardware error, and I received a C64C as a replacement). One of the most fascinating things about it was not the interesting selection of user interface colors, but the fact that there was a BASIC interpreter built into the console; You could start coding right at the prompt.
I spent hours and hours typing code published in computer magazines (no floppy drive!) and sooner or later wrote my own programs. That – granted – never evolved beyond some basic PRINT commands.
Anyway, time has passed, and so has BASIC. Or so I thought. I recently discovered FreeBASIC, a free QBASIC compiler. OK, it’s not the good old C64 BASIC, but QBASIC is nearly as fine.
Finally, locate and cls made it back into the reportoir of words I regularily type.