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If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? (lemm.ee)

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

15 years ago I was running multi-tasking BASIC programs on a controller that had 2MB of storage. We should have been there by now.

Holy shit, they're still kicking around:

https://wilke.de/en/embedded-computer/details/zurueck/computer-module/products/tiny-tiger-multitasking-computer.html

I used a few for high speed logging of a quadrature rotary encoder to measure the speed of a hydraulic sampling arm. Battery powered , had a 4 line LCD and keypad with a simple menu interface to take samples, as well as a serial export function to get .CSV files via hyperterminal.