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 ;-)
There was a short-lived movement to replace the GOTO with a new statement, COMEFROM, but for some reason it never caught on . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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