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Article #623694Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:40
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:40
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Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. > > Some problems are easily solved by recursion that are significantly more complicated otherwise. Of course Imhace a CS degree, so maybe I'm not qualified to comment. ;-) -- Pete
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