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[jdow]

From: "Aldo Foot" <lunixer at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, 2009/April/10 09:17


> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:07 AM, James Kosin <jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com> 
> wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 21:55 +0100, psmith wrote:
>>>> the first ever program being
>>>>
>>>> 10 print "phil is cool"
>>>> 20 goto 10
>>>> run
>>>
>>> Blasphemer! Stone him, stone him, he used a GOTO! That word is
>>> forbidden and must never be uttered... ;-)
>>>
>>
>> Actually, GOTO was very heavily in BASIC programming language. There
>> was no idea of statement blocks back then.
>> It may be the only language at the time where it isn't considered taboo.
>>
>> James
>
>
> GOTO... Ahhhh.... the coolness of BASIC programming before the Modern
> Computer Age. I had a friend that would use GOTO every few lines just
> because it was fun to do.

Hewlett-Packard ATS (Automated Test Systems) BASIC had what must be the
ultimate GOTO. "GOTO 100 * n + 3000" or the equivalent for GOSUB was
legal, evaluated to a line number and would execute the GOTO to that
line number if it existed. It was a particularly rude switch statement.
It made adding a RENUMBER command to the BASIC somewhat of a bother to
say the least.

{^_^}