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Back to BASICs with AI

Warning, today's column is targeted mainly at programmers and other geeks, especially those who may be playing with AI coding agents.

Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, regular folk discovered that they could write computer programs.

This was mainly due to the use of the BASIC programming language.

Whereas previously, programming a computer required the use of cryptic languages such as FORTRAN, ALGOL, APL and similar, usually by way of a compilation process that also made debugging difficult and time-consuming.

By comparison, BASIC was simple, easy to understand and interpreted.

This meant that with just a few hours learning, anyone could begin cutting their own code and producing software that did what *they* wanted, rather than having to find someone else's software and adapt to it.

However, there was one big problem with BASIC and untrained programmers.

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