Ahh, good old BASIC. <To be written in Sarcastica font>
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10 cls 20 print "Hello "; 30 goto 20 |
Very little structure, no objects, good old line numbers and goto. Early BASICs did have GOSUB <linenumber> and RETURN but not an ELSE clause for IF THEN. Variable names limited to 1 maybe 2 characters. With $ signs required for variables that held strings. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview of the evolution.
Labelled code didn't come until after the Level-II extensions on original TRS-80 machines and their ilk.
Be glad of the works of Niklaus Wirth. He pressured the pedagogic programming field into directions that we all benefit from.
And be happy the "good old days" became the "better now days".
And to be honest, I kinda wish Bill Gates knew more about and followed McCarthy, Kay or even Backus and Hopper before Kemeny and Kurtz. The world might be a completely different place.
Cheers
