Back to BASIC
Some may say that modern life is rubbish. Blur proclaimed such a sentiment in 1993 when it released its rather splendid second album, but you’d hope things have improved somewhat since Damon Albarn and his chums entered the studio to record it.
In many respects, they have. In terms of technology, we’ve come on in leaps and bounds over the past 28 years. Our computers and devices let us unleash our creativity like never before, they make us more productive and they serve us endless photos of cats courtesy of the World Wide Web. What’s not to like?
Yet Laurant Weill isn’t so sure that things have always improved for the better. “Something happened in the 1990s,” he told PC Pro. “Computers became truly complex machines but they also became much more difficult to program. There was no good reason for this. No good reason at all.”
Weill is the co-founder of AOZ Studio, a fledgling French firm aiming to make coding easier on modern machines. He’s working with François Lionet, who once developed two dialects of the programming language BASIC for the Atari ST
