Sujet : Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
De : Pancho.Jones (at) *nospam* proton.me (Pancho)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 21. Nov 2024, 09:09:29
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On 11/20/24 21:05, Rich wrote:
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 03:37:58 -0500
"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>
Hmmmmmmmm ... how many now have EVER programmed in BASIC ? Should do
a survey .....
>
Lord, who hasn't!? Well, probably depends on how you choose to qualify
it - we still use VB6 in-house at $EMPLOYER, and FreeBASIC is my go-to
for hacking together quick utility applications in daily life, but I
haven't touched old-school line-number spaghetti-Gotoese BASIC since
childhood, and certainly never built any application of real complexity
with it. Bet more than a few people here have, though, especially if we
cross-posted over to a.f.computers...
Given the typical age of most posters here, I'd say nearly every one of
us has written /something/ in one or more of the 75 different variants
of "BASIC" that have existed over time.
For me: BBC Basic, VAX Basic, Visual Basic (&VBA).
GOTO was deprecated before BBC Basic circa 1981. I never really saw it, apart from reasonable GOTO error usages. Wasn't it more a sign of lack of training than a linguistic feature?