Dan Lyke on Nostr: npub1wa4lf…t9nmn I grew up with hand-assembling, then BASIC, a little UCSD Pascal ...

npub1wa4lf799kuajpq8cqudg3n765tggeppxylyhtwhaxw4hce2mlnms7t9nmn (npub1wa4…9nmn) I grew up with hand-assembling, then BASIC, a little UCSD Pascal (pirated), and then the Turbo languages. And, yeah, the latter weren't free, but they were cheap enough that it didn't matter.

So the Apple 2/C64 era had BASIC, and MS-DOS had BASIC, the Turbo languages, and all sorts of pirated or otherwise acquired 4GLs like dBase and its clones.