{"id":25303,"date":"2010-03-11T16:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/11\/whats-wrong-with-basic\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:58:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:58:05","slug":"whats-wrong-with-basic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/whats-wrong-with-basic\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with Basic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to see a computer language that offers anything not available in Basic, in so far as the language itself goes.  But Basic has been maligned as the ruination of computer coding.  <a href=\"http:\/\/reprog.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/09\/where-dijkstra-went-wrong-the-value-of-basic-as-a-first-programming-language\/\">There is an alternative opinion out there. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to see a computer language that offers anything not available in Basic, in so far as the language itself goes. But Basic has been maligned as the ruination of computer coding. There is an alternative opinion out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6A7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}