Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> George wrote:
> >In my first programming course, in BASIC, we had to simulate control
> >structures with the controlled use of IF ... GOTO.
>
> Ahh, GOTO. I remember what a big deal it was when they installed a new
> version of BASIC at the high school I was attending at the time, and it had
> two brand new commands (new for us, anyway); GOSUB and RETURN. The
> programming teachers immediately banned use of GOTO altogether. In
> retrospect, the days of GOTO seem like the dark ages of programming ;-)
GOTO was the reason my father would not let me take programming in high
school; all the programming classes were BASIC, except that if you'd had 2
courses of BASIC, you could then take Pascal. I didn't get to take a
programming class until I could have one that started out with Pascal. (My
father was familiar with a number of programming languages; he taught
FORTRAN when he was in Belfast as a student, because he knew it better than
any of the faculty.)
Julia
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