Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Why I preffer Basic!!! Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:26:08 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <695da2f5-5a12-4fdd-b98f-a0519fea0705@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.msdos.programmer:1139 On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 20:01:16 -0500, Alexei A. Frounze 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