11 May
1999
11 May
'99
7:35 p.m.
I'm interested in the old line numbered basics. Are there any web sites or email
lists regarding programming in the old basic languages?
Stephanie sring(a)uslink.net
11 May
11 May
9:35 p.m.
I'm interested in the old line numbered
basics. Are there any web
sites or email lists regarding programming in the old basic languages?
Stephanie sring(a)uslink.net
Yipes, I thought they were all that way. ;) Then again I learned basic on a
Data General via teletype. What sort of questions do you have?
12 May
12 May
1:34 a.m.
Upon the date 02:35 AM 5/12/99 -0700, Mike Ford said something like:
Gee Stephanie, that question makes some of us feel *old*! :-)
Us 'older folks' learned BASIC back in the old days and knew it as always
having line numbers then. Mike falls within "our group" it appears.
Nowadays, the apparent influences of other structured languages like the
Pascal flavors, ADA, C/C++, etc. have allowed modern BASICs to be designed
to not use line numbers, and hence, be somewhat more structured :)
First BASIC I came across that didn't have line numbering was BASIC-09 that
I used on my OS-9/68k industrial computer in the late 80's. The BASIC-09
was first written for the 6809-based Radio Shack Color Computers (early
80's vintage) which ran OS-9 Level 1 and was eventually ported over to the
68000 level of OS-9. Compared with the OS-9 Pascal I also had, it looked
quite similar. That brought me renewed respect for BASIC. *Structured*
BASIC, that is.
Regards, Chris
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I'm
interested in the old line numbered basics. Are there any web
sites or email lists regarding programming in the old basic languages?
Stephanie sring(a)uslink.net
Yipes, I thought they were all that way. ;) Then again I learned basic on a
Data General via teletype. What sort of questions do you have?
2:51 a.m.
New subject: New-fangled languages (was: BASIC
>> I'm interested in the old line
numbered basics. Are there any web
>>sites or email lists regarding programming in the old basic languages?
>Yipes, I thought they were all that way. ;) Then again I learned basic on a
>Data General via teletype. What sort of questions do you have?
On Wed, 12 May
1999, Christian Fandt wrote:
Gee Stephanie, that question makes some of us feel
*old*! :-)
Us 'older folks' learned BASIC back in the old days and knew it as always
having line numbers then. Mike falls within "our group" it appears.
So, it's true!? There really are new dialects of BASIC without
line numbers! And dialects of FORTRAN that don't require a FORMAT
statement! And did you hear about "Visual COBOL"??
What is this world coming to?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
3:24 a.m.
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5:39 a.m.
New subject: New-fangled languages (was: BASIC
::So, it's true!? There really are new dialects
of BASIC without
::line numbers! And dialects of FORTRAN that don't require a FORMAT
::statement! And did you hear about "Visual COBOL"??
::What is this world coming to?
Perl. :-) (runs for the hills)
There can't be anything new in programming after ADA :)
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
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9:07 a.m.
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
It sure makes me feel old :-). The second language I
ever learnt was
line-numbered BASIC. [The first? SC/MP machine code :-)]
In every BASIC I've seen, the numbers of the lines don't matter, as long
as they're in ascending order.
678 PRINT "HELLO"
792 GOTO 678
is as good as
1 PRINT "HELLO"
2 GOTO 1
Was this always the case?
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
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