You don't
need line numbers in BBC BASIC either if you don't use
GOTO, GOSUB or RESTORE nnnn.
Maybe not in the more recent (Archimedes, etc) versions, but the
version
I run on my Beebs (and the 6502 side of my ACW) certainly requires
line
numbers.
Only to actually enter the code from the keyboard. The program itself
doesn't need line numbers, and you don't need to enter them if you
write the code with a screen editor instead of the line editor.
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J.G.Harston - jgh at