Daniel Robbins hired by M$

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, James Knott wrote:
> ...Also, at that time BASIC was a teaching language and
> the source would have been available to students.

Yes and no and maybe.  Just because a particular BASIC implementation was
meant to be used for teaching (and there was non-teaching use of BASIC
even then) doesn't mean that its source code was available at all, never
mind to students.  Plenty of teaching-oriented language implementations
were shipped binary-only.

> ...Back in those days, source code was routinely made available.

Sometimes, and sometimes not.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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