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Okay, then, children of the modern age (where we live in a world
so tied together with wires that Pangaea ain't goin' nowhere!), you tell me if
this is a predicament or not.
In the 1980s, you could
look up from your Commodore 64, hours after purchasing it, with a glossy feeling
of empowerment, achieved by the pattern of notes spewing from the speaker grille
in an endless loop. You were part of the movement to help machines sing! You
were a programmer! The Atari 800 people had BASIC. They know what I'm talking
about. And the TI-994A guys don't need to say a word, because the TI could say
it for them!
The old machines don't compare
to the desktops of today, or to the consoles of today. But, sadly, current versions
of Windows have no immediately accessible programming languages. And what's
a kid going to do with Visual Basic? Build a modal dialog? Forget coding for
XBox. Requires registration in the XBox Developer Program. Otherwise, you gotta
crack the sucker open. GameCube? GameBoy? Playstation 2?
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