[Coco] C VS Basic Coco

[Wayne Campbell]

GOTOs are not a good way to do loops anyway. Fortunately, Basic09 has loop
structures (REPEAT/UNTIL, WHILE/ENDWHILE and LOOP/ENDLOOP) so using GOTO is
limited in use anyway. The exceptions are ON <expression> GOTO and ON ERROR
GOTO. There is also IF/THEN <line reference> which uses a line number and
an implied GOTO. Those can be handy at times.

Wayne

On Feb 13, 2018 1:15 PM, "Scott Wendt" <malfunct at msn.com> wrote:

> I don't want to stir up any arguments, because whatever language that gets
> the job done and is the one you want to use is the one you should use, but
> I think the things that make BASIC easy to get started with are the same
> ones that makes it poorly suited for complex projects.
>
> A lot of the extra "stuff" in structured languages are there to represent
> program structure and does really lend to the readability and
> maintainability of large complex projects. For me personally brackets and
> indentation are super important for identifying logical blocks of code.
>
> I am currently working on porting a large (on the order of 50k lines in
> multiple files) BASIC program written in AppleSoft BASIC to C# and
> following what is happening in the BASIC code is tedious. There are more
> "lines" in the C# equivalent but they are nicely organized and
> compartmentalized and I think will prove to be easier to understand and
> maintain. Using GOTO to implement while loops is my current nemesis, they
> have me going crosseyed.
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] C VS Basic Coco
>
> I'd also say the C example is doing more than the BASIC example which adds
> to it looking more complex.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main () {
>     for(int a = 10; a < 20; a++) {
>         printf("%d\n", a);
>     }
>     return 0;
> }
>
> To me, that's just as clear as the BASIC, but I have a background in
> c/c++/c# so I'm familiar and comfortable with it.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Taylor, Phillip L CIV <
> Phillip.L.Taylor at uscg.mil> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I the reason I like basic is because it's much easer to learn and read
> the
> > source code.  The example below 8 lines of basic code 6 lines of code vs
> C
> > is 8 lines of code.
> >
> > Basic is more simple less code:
> >
> > Loop
> > A = A +1
> > Print A
> > Exitif A < 20
> > EndExit
> > Endloop
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > C Code is harder to learn:
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> >
> > int main () {
> >
> >    int a;
> >
> >    /* for loop execution */
> >    for( a = 10; a < 20; a = a + 1 ){
> >       printf("value of a: %d\n", a);
> >    }
> >
> >    return 0;
> > }
> >
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