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Comment Back to the Future! (Score 1) 59

I was a PLATO author and user in the mid-80s, starting at the University of Arizona. I worked on physics lessons. Tutor was a pretty straightforward language and pretty powerful, really. We did not have the kinds of tools programmers expect to have now - not even a real version control system. Still, we accomplished quite a lot. And yes, the chat and notesfile functions were easy to use and powerful (and popular).

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Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?

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