David, at 13:18 on Sun, May 29 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

 PE>> Show me a line of basic, and I'll tell you how to make your 
 PE>> life easy in C.

 BG> 10 print "this is easy!"
 BG> 20 goto 10

 BG> Now tell me how C or C++ can make this any easier?  ;-)

 DD> can you do it without the "goto"?

I think so...

10 gosub 20
20 print "look, no goto!"
30 return

BTW, I didn't cheat by looking at any books, and it must be 10 years since
I last used BASIC, so the above may not work (and I couldn't be bothered
finding my old basic interpreter so I can check). ;-)

Regards, Bill

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