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[sylvar]

Oh, thank heavens I'm not the only one who noticed the bug in WIRED. Go ahead, read the code and see if you can spot the problem. As a veteran of Atari BASIC, I frowned instantly.

The article, Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World (printed as "The Ages of Innovation"), is about chronological age and technology leadership.



Hands up if you spotted the bug.

Comments

[datan0de.livejournal.com]

Cripes. I've never programmed on an Atari but did spend an embarrassing percentage of my childhood playing with Commodore 64 BASIC, which is close enough to Atari BASIC to know the difference between PRINT and INPUT.

Also, shouldn't it be "A" instead of "A$"? Can Atari BASIC process a string variable as a numerical value?

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Yes. It should be 20 IF VAL(A$) < 30 THEN GOTO 60.