Re:BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced
by andyjohnson0 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:28AM
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Even back in ~1985 I'd have felt bad about such a practice. And I had only the very vaguest notions about "structured programming".
The school I went to only had a cpuple of computers, so I wrote code longhand on A4 lined paper. When I needed to insert lines, I wrote them on a slip of paper that I placed at the appropriate place on the page and stapled on the right-hand edge.
We've certainly come a long way.
Line numbers are arbitrary, you can just use GOTO to jump to some out-of-line code then GOTO back at the end. It gets a bit spaghetti'ish if you do it lot, though.