] 50 END

Basic can help you out. At the first Interz0ne, I ended up being giving a second unplanned talk. I needed to whip together some code, and the only thing I had was a Basic Compiler. I basically wrote ctime.h, used it for an app and gave my talk.

2 months later I get an email asking me to come interview for a intership at SpiDynamics, a local security company. After meeting alot of folks, I met the founder, a guy about my age in a Nirvana T-shirt and Tevas. First thing he says to me is

"Sir Dystic tells me you have some 31337 QBasic skillz."

It was a strange interview.

IconoclasT wrote:
] BASIC Computer Language Turns 40
]
] 10 PRINT "In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a
] radical"
]
] 20 PRINT "idea - create a computer language muscular enough to
] harness"
]
] 30 PRINT "the power of the period's computers, yet simple
] enough that even"
]
] 40 PRINT "the school's janitors could use it."
]
] 50 END

"The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."
-- Edsger Dijkstra