Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: hanc...
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 19:11

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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.

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