Re: [libreoffice-users] About pseudo objects with Basic code ...

GoTo. One of the curses of Basic, the GoTo.

When used by newcomers (and a few some old hands too) a
Basic program would  soon become an unstructured mess of
GoTo's and a hassle to debug.  One of our Pascal lecturers was
very  anti-Basic and forbade us to use it,  or to even talk about it
in his presence.

Thank you Tom and Jonathon for the memory,
Gordon.


On 09/07/18 15:55, toki wrote:
> On 08/07/18 09:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > I remember learning one form of basic in the 80s and that was pretty easy
> There is a book from the early/mid eighties, that is simply lists the
> vocabulary of the various dialects of BASIC in use then. IIRC, it was
> called _The BASIC Book_. It was written specifically for programmers to
> port software between the various systems that were available.
>
> Back then, all variants of basic used line numbers, and allowed GoTo.
> Today, several variants of BASIC don't use line number, and some
> variants don't have GoTo.
>
> jonathon


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