I found example "basic" code in a 1980's textbook.

Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

10 PRINT "OP IS A FAG"
20 GOTO 10

>>62193008
In case you're not trolling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
Basic on a C64 was my intro to programming. It didn't work out too badly.

>>62193347

thanks

but how do you guys feel about basic

>>62193632
Dijkstra hated it; and I'll never advance the state of the art as much as he did. That said, when virtually every personal computer came with it in ROM, people were able to see that the machine could be bent to their will with some effort. Now, it seems that we assume to easily that we should bend to the machine's creator's will instead.
BASIC probably won't get you a job these days, but a lot of people who are making things now cut their teeth on it in the beginning.

>>62194360

fixing VB codebases is one of the higher paying gigs

>>62194393
Converting them to something else, or just maintaining them?

>>62193008
It was a pretty good language that was default on a great many machines in the late seventies and 80's. You start your machine and there would be a blinking cursor on the bottom. All code you typed would be registered and displayed at the top of the screen. There were a few commands that weren't code so It was kind of command line like. You could make games and calculator programs or whatever and programs for sale could be edited if you wanted to change something. A lot of magazines had programs for you to key in. There was also machine language on the same machines that you could type in or work through a compiler and that ran faster as you would expect but was way more 'leet'.