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That is it : I am becoming a programmer.
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Originally posted by chef View PostI miss BASIC on my ZX spectrum 48k
oh happy days
Its major failings were that it still used line numbers and didn't support multiline if...then...else... constructs. Still, having to put all your if...then...else... stuff on one line encouraged one to move the action of the then and else clauses into named procedures: another win, if only by dint of working around a limitation, for encouraging the habit of structuring one's code using meaningful names.
And of course, if it hadn't been for BBC BASIC's built-in Assembler, we might never have had Elite, the original version of which was written therewithComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostBBC BASIC was great because it supported named procedures and functions, and multiline control structures like repeat...until. If you wanted to get your head around Structured Programming (which was still a fairly new concept in the non-computer-scientist realm in those days), it was thoroughly supportive.
Its major failings were that it still used line numbers and didn't support multiline if...then...else... constructs. Still, having to put all your if...then...else... stuff on one line encouraged one to move the action of the then and else clauses into named procedures: another win, if only by dint of working around a limitation, for encouraging the habit of structuring one's code using meaningful names.
And of course, if it hadn't been for BBC BASIC's built-in Assembler, we might never have had Elite, the original version of which was written therewithInsanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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