BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

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quaternaut@reddit

That actually sounds horrifying as an after life

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hagenbuch@reddit

Maybe the "pre-life" was just like that but then caught an exception?

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hagenbuch@reddit

10 PRINT "BYE BYE THOMAS AND THANK YOU FOR A GREAT TOY OF MY CHILDHOOD" 20 GOTO 10

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QuerulousPanda@reddit

Not sure how I feel about that headline. I know it's meant as an homage, but it seems kind of disrespectful, and it kind of subtly implies that he killed himself.

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kanben@reddit

It implies nothing of the sort, you inferred it

Stop seeing malice where this is none

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lproven@reddit

FWIW, I only write the words, not the headlines.

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shevy-java@reddit

And it was already on the subreddit before. I think we may be stuck in a loop - hopefully I am wrong ...

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lproven@reddit

That's a different article, though. His work touched a lot of people and there are dozens of obituaries. I tried to keep mine short and minimal and simple.

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lproven@reddit

Hey, that's my article. Thanks for sharing it!

I really struggled to write it... there was so much more I wanted to cram in.

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massive_gainz@reddit

Thanks for the great time and may there be a GOTO 10

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massive_gainz@reddit

Start of the program (BASIC uses line numbers and programmers used steps of 10 to have some reserve to add lines in between). GOTO 10 means "jump to line 10 and execute code"

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stackoverflooooooow@reddit

still remembering the first time using it is to draw some circle on an education device with a small screen to help students learn english

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Turing was 42 years old when he died. That's not super-young and not super-old. I understand you refer to Turing's reference to universal compuating / computation, but I think it would have been greater if Turing had lived a long life too.

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GimmickNG@reddit

Turing unfortunately didn't live a Turing complete life.

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schadwick@reddit

10 PRINT "Goodbye World"
20 GOTO 10

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shevy-java@reddit

So that's what is on line 10!

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shevy-java@reddit

We had that already before here, though, as he died on 12.11.2024. Not sure why this is repeated on 20.11.2024, unless we are stuck in a GOTO loop.

We had that already ...