* On May 30 07:02 Bill Grimsley wrote to David Drummond

 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"?

 BG> I think so...

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

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

Program executes line 10,
then line 20
then line 30
jumps back and executes line 20 (line following gosub)
shits at line 30 - nothing to return to.


David
 

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