Re: My First Computer

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Simon Williams <*email*@*luddite.ca*> wrote in message news:<28143.KVVNCQVW@news.telusplanet.net>...
> On 8 Feb 2003 10:38:42 -0800 steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote:
> 
>  
> > Then again, some programmers writing in BASIC use *no* indent (indent
> > is deleted in fact on some versions, like Applesoft).  That's hard as
> > heck to read. :D
> 
> Funny, one of the things that made Applesoft click for me was the line
> numbering combined with the GOTO statement. 
> 
> 10 PRINT "HELLO"
> 20 GO TO 10
> 
> That's graspable on a purely intuitive level (at least for me), whereas
> other languages that I'd previously attempted (applescript, metal, real
> basic, etc) seemed much less obvious.
> 
> Well, I may not be a 'programmer' per se, but I have written quite a few
> short programs that I find quite useful, and by golly I do use alot of
> GOTOs.

You should see all the GOTOs in code I've written.

Dapple ][ doesn't have too much of it because it was recoded by
someone else, but if you look at Dapple 1.x or RMF-COM, you'll see
"goto" quite a bit. ;)

-uso.