I would have thought they'd want a kernel optimized for small devices driving the phones and a different one for desktops. Maybe have them implement the same API. But isn't the kernel something you'd want optimized for the device family?

10 ? "HAPPY BIRTHDAY BASIC!"
20 GOTO 10
30 REM This comment so the Slashdot filter won't complain about the all caps code yelling

If you want verbose, look at Java or even worse, COBOL.

You see it used a lot for objects and an instance of the object. For example, in C# you might have a class named Person and create an instance of it like this:

Person person = new Person();

Millennium award? That sounds either 13 years late or way, way too early.

Yes, I have a few Creative Computings around. But I got my start after reading an article in Atari Explorer magazine about BASIC. I cut my teeth on the horrible Basic that was Atari ST Basic. But then I moved to the awesome GFA Basic. From there to C and various other languages. Remember the "B" in Basic stands for Beginner. It's a good language to teach the fundamentals -- variables, looping, etc.

Think of it more like the anniversary of the slide rule. Sure, you wouldn't use it today for doing calculations, put it has a place in history and was a step toward more powerful things. And some amazing stuff was done with it, like going to the moon.

That's what the B in BASIC is for -- Beginners. You use it to learn about variables and loops and if statements and other such concepts. Then you move on to other languages (C, Python, etc.) where the concepts are the same but the languages are better structured.

Wow. A Slashdot summary that shows both sides of something.

Honey I've lost the remote! Can you call it!

Probably didn't want to spend the money to fight the cable companies

"For the First Time, Organ Regenerated Inside a Living Animal"

So, all the other times they were regenerated inside dead animals?

I'm more worried about the ones who are concerned about Guam tipping over and who think the U.S. Constitution is 400 years old.

But after the editor did that, shouldn't the reporter who's going to be presenting the final story have watched it to make sure everything was okay?