BASIC

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  • History of BASIC
  • PRINT
    • history
    • text fields
    • semicolon
  • Flow control
    • BASIC not a structured programming language (no blocks, etc.)
    • Many of BASIC's control flow concepts are taken directly from machine language
    • GOTO
      • Dijkstra's arguments against GOTO.
    • FOR NEXT
      • Demonstrate GOTOless version of program
    • GOSUB
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