Hi :) @ Mauricio: Wow!!! That was very eloquent! :)) Thanks :) @ Gordon: Sorry! I had a go with Pascal but got distracted and didn't get very far. It looked a LOT more elegant but i was entrenched in using Basic at the time and couldn't handle the back to basics at that point in time.
@ all: Do you think Python is easy as a 1st language? - or is it better to start with something else first to ease into it all? I'm kinda playing around with Scratch a bit and kinda learning Python but at a very relaxed pace. Both seem quite good fun now :) Regards from a Tom :) On 9 July 2018 at 06:19, gordon cooper <gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz> wrote: > GoTo. One of the curses of Basic, the GoTo. > > When used by newcomers (and a few some old hands too) a > Basic program would soon become an unstructured mess of > GoTo's and a hassle to debug. One of our Pascal lecturers was > very anti-Basic and forbade us to use it, or to even talk about it > in his presence. > > Thank you Tom and Jonathon for the memory, > Gordon. > > > > On 09/07/18 15:55, toki wrote: > >> On 08/07/18 09:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> >> I remember learning one form of basic in the 80s and that was pretty easy >>> >> There is a book from the early/mid eighties, that is simply lists the >> vocabulary of the various dialects of BASIC in use then. IIRC, it was >> called _The BASIC Book_. It was written specifically for programmers to >> port software between the various systems that were available. >> >> Back then, all variants of basic used line numbers, and allowed GoTo. >> Today, several variants of BASIC don't use line number, and some >> variants don't have GoTo. >> >> jonathon >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-un > subscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
