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		agf 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for... This matches my memory. When I got my dad's old work computer with QuickBASIC on it, and I discovered the compiler, and could write programs other people could "just run", I felt like a real programmer for the first time.

90s_dev 8 months ago [–]

Yet you were even before that, the moment you made programs work at all.

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