BASIC

From Maze

Topics

• History of BASIC
  • Place within the history of high-level programming languages
  • Dartmouth BASIC
  • BASIC version 2
  • C64 BASIC
  • Discussion of how much variation there was in BASIC dialects on contemporaneous machines
  • The role of BASIC today
• 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