Timeline for Why did 8-bit computers choose BASIC dialects as "de facto" command-line interface, instead of contemporary Shell/Lisp dialects?
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| Jul 26 at 11:40 | comment | added | Miss Understands | The original word perfect macro language was like that. It allowed only primitive operations on their crude data structures. It was just barely a language except in the Turing / Chomsky sense. It was so outrageously unusable, they completely rewrote it in the next version. | |
| Apr 18, 2020 at 7:18 | history | edited | Andy Dent | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add more detail about business uses and Forth
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| Apr 14, 2020 at 11:31 | history | answered | Andy Dent | CC BY-SA 4.0 |