scott wrote:
>> Until then, I'd only ever programmed in machine code and BASIC. (Back 
>> when BASIC was BASIC... You know, with GOTO and line numbers and stuff!)
> 
> Hehe, although the BASIC I had (on a BBC B) also had functions and 
> procedures, so you really could keep clear of the dreaded goto.

That's a wonderful language. I once heard it said that BBC BASIC V (the 
version that shipped with the Archimedes and its successors) was 'the 
Rolls-Royce version of BASIC'. Up till then I was always puzzled by the 
bashing that BASIC got for being unstructured and tedious.


(Sighs... built-in assembler, OS graphics library, direct memory 
addressing...)

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