"A lot of you guys are hating on the author for not being able to figure out how to install Nodejs."
Nope. That's not what they're criticising.
"Yet if you're old enough to have gotten started in the time of JavaScript in the late '90s, or QBasic in the early '90s, or systems like the BBC Micro or TRS-80 in earlier decades, you should know what the author's talking about.
Everything you need to program is just there. It just works, there's no extra installation, you start a program and start coding."
Bash is 5000x more powerful and user-friendly programming environment than any version of rom BASIC ever was.
qbasic... well guess what? qbasic was not necessarily just there. It might be there. You have to type the command at a command line, and if it doesn't work, you have to investigate %PATH%
Bash kills basic hands down, as a programming language mind you, using only it's built-in features, forget the fact that it's also a wrapper around exec(), and it is right there exactly like the the old rom basics were.
Nope. That's not what they're criticising.
"Yet if you're old enough to have gotten started in the time of JavaScript in the late '90s, or QBasic in the early '90s, or systems like the BBC Micro or TRS-80 in earlier decades, you should know what the author's talking about.
Everything you need to program is just there. It just works, there's no extra installation, you start a program and start coding."
Bash is 5000x more powerful and user-friendly programming environment than any version of rom BASIC ever was.
qbasic... well guess what? qbasic was not necessarily just there. It might be there. You have to type the command at a command line, and if it doesn't work, you have to investigate %PATH%
Bash kills basic hands down, as a programming language mind you, using only it's built-in features, forget the fact that it's also a wrapper around exec(), and it is right there exactly like the the old rom basics were.