Re: My First Computer

[BJ <dontspamme@nosirree.net>]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 06:03:09 -0500, "Tom Zuchowski"
<tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:

>"Simon Williams" <*email*@*luddite.ca*> wrote in message
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>> On 8 Feb 2003 10:38:42 -0800 steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote:
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>> > 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
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>> Funny, one of the things that made Applesoft click for me was the line
>> numbering combined with the GOTO statement.
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>I totally agree! Intelligent line numbering in Applesoft made the programs
>very readable.In Eamon, for example. each subroutine has its own 1000-number
>block, a system which breaks the program up into readily graspable sections.
>
>Tom Zuchowski
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For me, the TI-99's ability in XB to offer user-nameable subprograms,
with local variables and parameters, with it's ability to renumber
lines and merge subprograms into a main program, is what really made
me fall in love with it.
To have canned-subprograms, already saved, just ready to be merged
into a program is a very nice feature. Not having to use common
variables to pass parameters through a gosub is very  nice!