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On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 23:56:41 +1100, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
declaimed the following:

>I think every programmer would learn something from trying to write, and
>maintain, an actual useful piece of code using only a BASIC-like language.
>At the least, they would appreciate what a huge step-up it was to introduce
>procedural programming.
>
	Well -- it wasn't "useful" being just a class assignment, but the
instructor of the data structures/algorithms class permitted us to use any
language he could understand for an assignment.

	I did use a 70s era BASIC for it. Got fun as the system only allowed
for four open files at a time... And I made use of the CHAIN LINK command
to load the main operational functions as separate programs... The
assignment: a hashed head multiple linked list. Something I've only seen in
one place since then -- the file system of the Amiga.
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