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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:35:47 +0000
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On 21/11/2024 23:04, Pancho wrote:
> On 11/21/24 15:45, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>> On 11/21/24 3:09 AM, Pancho wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>>    I found a good way to use GOTO however - in a handheld
>>    device where you had to enter several kinds of data
>>    about a location. The structure was a sort of "ladder"
>>    and pressing buttons would take you up and down the
>>    ladder via GOTOs. If you needed to edit yer last entry
>>    you just jumped one step up. The handheld only had a
>>    4-line display alas, so you couldn't show even one
>>    entire record, only one prompt at a time.
>>
>>    Now each entry was only a few lines of code - the input,
>>    an error-detector and the up/down GOTO thing. Easy to
>>    keep track of. GOTO made the pgm simpler and more
>>    compact.
> 
> Sounds like a jump table. We still do that, but with functions rather 
> than jumps.
> 
Case statements...

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