----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:16 AM Subject: Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]
> 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.) > Unfortunately, you pretty had to use GOTO in FORTRAN as well, at least until FORTRAN 77. Even Pascal had a GOTO, but you were forced to use a compiler switch to use it. The default was NOGOTO. George A _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
