12 May
2005
12 May
'05
8:26 a.m.
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Allison wrote:
Basic is a language that is easy to code badly.
I'm one of the few that was mostly BASIC and ASM until UCSD P-system
and decided to learn a "structured" language. I was eye opening the
difference coding learned. After that I tried writing basic using
block structure and treating goto and return like Call and JUMP with
better looking results. I can see the effect it had looking at some
of my really old code.
My high school compsci teacher introduced me to "structured programming"
in BASIC, and I accepted it, but it still seemed to stifle my creativity.
In the second semester he forced me into Pascal. Let's face it: the UCSD
Pascal system just sucks. I was willing to go along with it and learn
Pascal until one day I put in the wrong disk during a proscribed disk
swap and, instead of having proper error recovery, the OS proceeded to
overwrite my disk with something else, losing all my source code. I swore
off Pascal from that moment on.
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