13 Jan
1998
13 Jan
'98
11:28 a.m.
Allison J Parent wrote:
<The 4051 BASIC is AWFUL. Example: the syntax of the IF statement is IF
<condition THEN line number. Similarly the 4052 and 4054. The really
20 IF A=5 THEN 100
That is standard Dartmouth BASIC! at least it has been since 1969 when I
started programming with it.
And it was standard in every Micro$oft BASIC up until QuickBASIC. And
in HP-2000 BASIC, on which I first learned. The ANSI Goto (label) was a
late development and slow to be adopted by implementors -- the first I
recall was the Ryan/McFarlan compiler for the TRS-80s, not that that
means it was first in any other way.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.