This post is great. The argument that followed was an unfortunate case of miscommunication on both side, oops!
JavaScript has many similarities to BASIC!
At one point, yes, points 1-5 were definitely true. Thank you for reminding me! Don't forget about BASIC!
Here's just a few of really big differences:
1.) BASIC didn't have a DOM.
2.) BASIC didn't have network abilities.
3.) BASIC didn't have advanced language features.
4.) BASIC wasn't didn't load and execute from a simple network request.
BASIC was SUPER important to the command line PC-era, just as JavaScript is really important to the cloud-era.
Microsoft and BASIC... Google and JavaScript...
Because JavaScript is attached to the DOM, and the DOM, aka, web pages, are SO crazy successful at delivering, presenting, archiving and navigating media, it really adds a level of longevity to the language that BASIC could only have dreamed of.
The c64 did, but could you download a basic program from the bbs and run it in place without stopping the modem software? Could that BASIC program then proceed to, in place download more content to view, from same, or any other BBS? We're talking about BASIC here :)
Now, if you wanted to move forward a few years then the Amiga could do those things using some proprietary graphical modem software and a bespoke graphics/interaction language whose name totally escapes me at the moment. It wasn't BASIC.
But, you know, you needed an Amiga to use it, and almost nobody had one.
He said BASIC didn't have networking capabilities. And well, that's true. c64 is a computer. BASIC is a language. they are two vastly different things.
and no, YOU'RE being extra argumentative in this thread.
JavaScript has many similarities to BASIC!
At one point, yes, points 1-5 were definitely true. Thank you for reminding me! Don't forget about BASIC!
Here's just a few of really big differences:
1.) BASIC didn't have a DOM. 2.) BASIC didn't have network abilities. 3.) BASIC didn't have advanced language features. 4.) BASIC wasn't didn't load and execute from a simple network request.
BASIC was SUPER important to the command line PC-era, just as JavaScript is really important to the cloud-era.
Microsoft and BASIC... Google and JavaScript...
Because JavaScript is attached to the DOM, and the DOM, aka, web pages, are SO crazy successful at delivering, presenting, archiving and navigating media, it really adds a level of longevity to the language that BASIC could only have dreamed of.