Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <The 4051 BASIC is AWFUL. Example: the syntax of the IF statement is IF
> <condition THEN line number. Similarly the 4052 and 4054. The really
>
> 20 IF A=5 THEN 100
>
> That is standard Dartmouth BASIC! at least it has been since 1969 when I
> started programming with it.
And it was standard in every Micro$oft BASIC up until QuickBASIC. And
in HP-2000 BASIC, on which I first learned. The ANSI Goto (label) was a
late development and slow to be adopted by implementors -- the first I
recall was the Ryan/McFarlan compiler for the TRS-80s, not that that
means it was first in any other way.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Tue Jan 13 1998 - 19:28:30 GMT