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Article #623690Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 15:24
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 15:24
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On 03/06/2018 15:02, Andrew Swallow wrote: > 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. Recursion is a technique favoured by those qualified in computer science but never used by programmers in the real practical world.
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