It’s always so disappointing when sci fi and fantasy books call their languages “Basic” or “Common”. No language is apolitical or universal: if they’re all calling one language Basic, who made it that way? Why is THIS dialect “Common” and all the others are Special/Magical/Incomprehensible??? Show me even a hint of the politics, or give your language a real name
writing political conflicts between Basic and FORTRAN into all my Tron fic
What is Fortran?
1. a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing (source: Wikipedia)
2. ship name for the polycule of (F)lynn / Y(OR)i / (T)ron / ®am / Al(AN) (source: I made that up)