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Digital Mark Ξ» β˜•οΈ πŸŽƒ πŸ’€ mdhughes@appdot.net

@vidak Noticed this in Bit of Basic (cool cover & cartoons, not otherwise too interesting), which leads to:

"You just bought a personal what?"
https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programming_In_Style_1980_Radio_Shack/page/n237/mode/2up

4. The extended string handling facilities of BASIC make it possible to write word processing programs. Investigate this subject, and see if you can write a simple text editing program. Information on how to do this can be found in chapter 4 of the book You Just Bought a Personal What? (BYTE Books, Peterborough, NH 03458). After you have the editor working, investigate the subject of a text formatter. An advanced discussion of a text formatter written in structured FORTRAN can be found in chapter 7 of Software Tools (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA 01867).

vidak vidak

@mdhughes there's this really interesting word processor for Atari BASIC called SCRIPTOR--i need to get deep into the 4000-lines in order to actually how it's doing its work

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Artyom Bologov aartaka@merveilles.town

@mdhughes oh, it’s a fun advice. I seem to have (unknowingly) followed it at https://github.com/aartaka/ed.bas

@vidak

Ben Collver BenCollver@tilde.zone

@mdhughes @vidak I love how they casually recommend that the reader to implement their own text editor and typesetting programs in BASIC. Either they're going to have a good time, or their experience with programming will be ruined forever.

tom jennings tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org

@mdhughes

Lol, but at that time, that all seemed so possible.

@vidak