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12/17/09 08:28
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 		 #171686 - Wasn't that the order of the day back then?
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Per Westermark said:
The original language was designed for producing spaghetti code.

That's a bit unfair!

It was possible to be disciplined and write reasonably "structured" code in the absence of any real Structured constructs in the language.

There were also the problems of no scope, and only single-letter variable names.

But these things weren't that uncommon in those days.

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BASCOM help            01/01/70 00:00      
   Debounced key?            01/01/70 00:00      
      problem mostly solved            01/01/70 00:00      
   Learn the architecture, hardware, and instruction set            01/01/70 00:00      
      BASIC - Acronym            01/01/70 00:00      
         depends on whom you ask, I guess            01/01/70 00:00      
            "all-purpose" isn't a new definition            01/01/70 00:00      
               What's in a name?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Well, I never found it to be particularly "algorithmic"            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Indeed!            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Relic of the GOTO mayhem of original BASIC            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Wasn't that the order of the day back then?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              That wasn't its intent ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 possible to write spaghetti code in Pascal or in 'C'            01/01/70 00:00      
            From the horse's mouth!            01/01/70 00:00      
            A clear case of PCMCIA            01/01/70 00:00      
      Basics - in the "foundational" sense            01/01/70 00:00      
         Other programming languages are available            01/01/70 00:00      
         programming languages            01/01/70 00:00      
            Assembler            01/01/70 00:00      
            Focus!            01/01/70 00:00      
            How about MIDE-51?            01/01/70 00:00      
      thanks            01/01/70 00:00      
   Why is that "bad"?            01/01/70 00:00      
      That's not bad :-)            01/01/70 00:00      
         Not necessarily true            01/01/70 00:00      

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