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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:54:55 +0100
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I demand that spike1@freenet.co.uk may or may not have written...
> T.J.T van Kooten <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> did eloquently scribble:
>> The reason is that Basic will being a good language for beginners isn't
>> the best language to learn the art of programming (structure, modules
>> etc..) . I'm not up to date up to date on recent Basic dialects but I
>> believe the same problem still applies.
> No, it doesn't... As mentioned previously, BBC BASIC had procedure and
> function definition...
s/had/has/
See <URL:http://www.brandy.iconbar.com/> for a free reimplementation of BBC
BASIC V.
[snip]
> Hell, even C has GOTO... It's just that its use is frowned upon to the
> point of flogging. :)
It may be considered harmful, but it's sometimes very useful...
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