Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:43:52 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:


Don Pearce wrote:

Basic has its
lack of structure, and sometimes that is exactly what you want. Don't
try and force everything into the same mould.
I rather liked the Procedures in BBC Basic.

DEFPROC ! (define procedure)

Graham

I don't know BBC basic. How is that different to defining a function
in Quickbasic?


DEFPROC and DEFFN was in BBC Basic before the equivalent appeared in
QuickBasic. There was also the concept of local scoping of variables,
which gave rise to some nifty recursive programming.

You could easily write a whole program without muttering the command
'GOTO', and the inline 6502 assembler was pretty handy...

Comparing the programming and graphics abilities of a £2000 IBM PC-XT
and a £400 BBC Micro around 1981 was a bit a wonder why the IBM was so
expensive. The BBC held it's own for many small businesses for quite a
while....

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Adrian C