On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 07:52:37PM -0400, jon.maddog.h...@gmail.com wrote: ...
> So BASIC has a lot of detractors, mostly due to the infamous "GOTO". FORTRAN's "computed goto" put that to shame ;) > So here is to you, BASIC! You moved a lot of people forward. Indeed. -mm- (no thanks on the supercomputer) PS: Some time in the mid-70s I wrote a FORTRAN preprocessor that allowed the use of symbolic labels. It could also renumber labels, move format statements to their own section with their own number grouping. A la ratfor I guess, tho I had never heard of that (it sort of barely existed then anyway). PPS: I only ever took one language course in my ignoble time at college, prior to the thing in the PS above. It was FORTRAN. I took it three times because I failed it twice, me being a horrible student and distracted by.. well, computers. The third time I got a D. The final term project was returned with a red scrawl over the front page saying "I asked for a project, not a thesis." That was sort of on my mind because I think I had that printout up until about a week ago when it was accidentally thrown out by somebody working on the house here. Ah, nostalgia. I remember that. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
