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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?