[GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

[Russell Reiter]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 11:48 AM William Porquet via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> "It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real
> hacker to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful." -
> anonymous hacker
>
> Still true today? :-)
>

I'd say so, considering the corporation which basically said Linux was not
secure, in order to keep their own market dominance, has now embraced Linux
with its own WSL.

Perhaps the gods have their own ways of making things useful.


>
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 11:43, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2019-08-26 11:34 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:05 AM James Knott via talk, <talk at gtalug.org
>> > <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
>> >     > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This
>> >     > situation, after Gates et. al. purloined acadamec knowledge for
>> >     > commercial endeavor, was kind of "the pot calling the kettle
>> >     black,"
>> >     > all things considered.
>> >
>> >     Of course, we can't forget BG was a dumpster diver, looking for
>> >     source code.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sssh, you,re leaking M$ trade secrets. :-o
>> >
>>
>> It's not a secret to anyone who's used Windows.  ;-)
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