>>> 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...)

Hmmm, I spent a long time writing programs with BASIC V and the assembler, a 
few of them even made it in to Acorn User magazine :-)  Oh those were the 
days, the thing that I liked best was that you could be in total control of 
the CPU, none of this having to worry about someone pressing Alt-Tab or the 
screen-saver coming on etc...

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