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Re: Why I preffer Basic!!!

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On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 20:01:16 -0500, Alexei A. Frounze  
<alexfrunews@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, December 7, 2013 4:58:20 PM UTC-8, Rod Pemberton wrote:

>> The big problem with BASIC is unstructured code.  You can jump
>> into and out of loops, etc.
>
> In C you have break and goto to jump into and out of loops as
> well. Oh, and longjmp(). :)

Yes.

I wasn't wanting to go into a full discussion on that
since there is more than that in C.  Generally though,
most C programmers are going to use the structured
coding features provided for them.  In BASIC, it's
entirely up to the programmer to code using structured
concepts or not.


Rod Pemberton

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Why I preffer Basic!!! MIkael Ljungberg <mljmacqb@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 08:59 -0800
  Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2013-12-07 19:21 +0100
    Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com> - 2013-12-07 16:54 -0500
      Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2013-12-07 22:41 +0000
      Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2013-12-08 01:17 +0100
    Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-07 19:55 -0500
      Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2013-12-08 02:16 +0100
  Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-07 19:58 -0500
    Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 17:01 -0800
      Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-08 00:26 -0500
    Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2013-12-08 01:52 +0000
      Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-08 00:19 -0500
  Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2013-12-10 09:20 -0800
    Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com> - 2013-12-10 14:23 -0500
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    Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 02:44 -0800
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    Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 03:44 -0800
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