Upon the date 02:35 AM 5/12/99 -0700, Mike Ford said something like:
>> I'm interested in the old line numbered basics. Are there any web
>>sites or email lists regarding programming in the old basic languages?
>>Stephanie sring_at_uslink.net
>
>Yipes, I thought they were all that way. ;) Then again I learned basic on a
>Data General via teletype. What sort of questions do you have?
>
Gee Stephanie, that question makes some of us feel *old*! :-)
Us 'older folks' learned BASIC back in the old days and knew it as always
having line numbers then. Mike falls within "our group" it appears.
Nowadays, the apparent influences of other structured languages like the
Pascal flavors, ADA, C/C++, etc. have allowed modern BASICs to be designed
to not use line numbers, and hence, be somewhat more structured :)
First BASIC I came across that didn't have line numbering was BASIC-09 that
I used on my OS-9/68k industrial computer in the late 80's. The BASIC-09
was first written for the 6809-based Radio Shack Color Computers (early
80's vintage) which ran OS-9 Level 1 and was eventually ported over to the
68000 level of OS-9. Compared with the OS-9 Pascal I also had, it looked
quite similar. That brought me renewed respect for BASIC. *Structured*
BASIC, that is.
Regards, Chris
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Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 08:34:27 BST