From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , Tony Williams
 wrote:
>
>Full disclosure: the first programming language I used was BASIC on an
>HP2000 in about 1975.

I was luckier, then - I started with REXX on a mainframe, in the early
80's. By the time I started using BASIC my programming habits were already
established. I never considered GOTO an abomination, though - it was (and
is) an excellent way to write FSMs (Finite State Machines, useful for
parsing and other applications that must handle unpredictable inputs).

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