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by EdSharkey 1788 days ago
> I got into computers when my dad brought a Commodore Vic-20 home in 1982. Learned BASIC by typing in programs from Compute magazine. Then in high school they taught us Turbo Pascal on the PC.

Are you me?!?! I bought a copy of QuickC after pascal got boring, msft's documentation that shipped in the box was excellent and I learned a ton from those books. QuickC's stdlib was really buggy though, felt like a hobby project compared to MSBasic.