A trip down shareware lane

InfoWorld
Aug 5, 2026, 5:00 am115 ptsTrending
I hope you’ll indulge me this week as I take a break from my usual rantings about agentic coding and meander down memory lane. I learned to code BASIC in the mid-1970s at my progressive junior high school. In math class. We took Fridays to learn about line numbers, loops, statements, and the amazing GOSUB,…

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