Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:02

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On 02/06/2018 20:11, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 12:19:34 PM UTC-4, Andrew Swallow wrote:
> 
>> The writers of BASIC obviously knew FORTRAN. They chose GOTOs over blocks.
> 
> BASIC had GOSUB.  Some BASIC's had CHAIN.
> 

GOSUB is a CALL statement without parameters. Although GOSUB is 
recursive. However having to implement variables as arrays shows how 
inelegant actually recursion is.

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