Subj : Re: Opinion on Pascal
To   : Mortifis
From : Jagossel
Date : Sat May 27 2017 10:29 pm

 Re: Re: Opinion on Pascal
 By: Mortifis to jagossel on Sat May 27 2017 12:14:00

>  > Granted I was pretty guilty of using GOTO when I programmed for fun on th
>  > TRS-80 CoCo as a kid.
>
> Did you RETURN?

Did I GOTO using RETURNs?  :D  See what I did there?

As a kid, I used GOTO a lot and never really understood the point of GOSUBS.
Now, after being a professional software developer for over 10 years, and
going through the Usborne programming books from the 1980s that they put online
for viewing (thanks to Nostalgia Nerd for providing the link to them in his
video description on YouTube), I am finally beginning to see the vaule of
GOSUB/RETURN: provides reusability in a structured programming paradigm, if
done right.  So, it would make sense that BASIC could move from being a
structured paradigm to a procedural one fairly easily.  Now-a-days, BASIC has
become more object oriented (e.g. Visual Basic).

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!

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