[Coco] C VS Basic Coco

[phil pt]

Sounds like to be that they either had a bad computer or a or compiler.
Basic is not evil its only one one thinks it is. Look at Vb.net and
Realbasic its much better then it was back in the 80's. Basic has changed
and it's not what you think it is today.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Bill Gunshannon <
bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> On 02/14/2018 08:02 AM, Francis Swygert wrote:
> > From: Scott Wendt <malfunct at msn.com>
> >
> > 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 find that amusing! I've never coded in anything but CoCo BASIC, but
> have followed and modified some C code... with explicit directions on what
> to modify and where.
> >
> > I find the use of brackets and indentations MUCH more confusing than
> well coded BASIC with line numbers. Part of you know what you learn, I
> guess. Unless you really packed BASIC code, subroutines generally start
> with a whole number (like 500... with a "GOTO 500" to go to that routine).
> What's hard to find about that?
> Ask Dykstra.  Or just look at the decades of research into why GOTOs are
> bad.
> In one of my last professional programming gigs I took more than a dozen
> programs heavily laced with GOTOs (true spaghetti code!!) and using proper
> structured programming removed all of them.  While I am not one who heavily
> favors standards bodies I think when they decided to come up with a BASIC
> standard it should have deprecated the GOTO entirely.
>
> bill
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