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Oct 25, 2022 at 04:53
A live demo of how you edit BASIC code (its REPL equivalent) inside a thoughtful article on how we interact with programming languages:
The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
How we interact with programming environment matters more than the language, but such interaction has never been widely studied. Inspired by the idea of

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