[Coco] Happy Birthday BASIC!

[Glen Hewlett]

Hi Salvador,

> On May 2, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Other reasons why it was looked down upon:
> 
> 1. It was interpreted, which meant that it was slow as compared to a compiled language.
> 2. It had line number, which made it look clumsy and tedious to insert code (the renum command was a fix)
> 3. It was not structured. After C++ came out, it introduced the programmer to classes and OOP BASIC had none of this, still relying on GOSUB and GOTO
> 4. It had the GOTO statement which was shunned. Programmers were excommunicated if they used GOTO in other languages (C, C++)

Good points...
I personally love the GOTO statement!  :)

Cheers,
Glen