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| 2024-04-16 05:53:22 +0200 | peterbecich | (~Thunderbi@47.229.123.186) |
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| 2024-04-16 04:26:00 +0200 | <geekosaur> | I ditched it when I got Turbo Pascal |
| 2024-04-16 04:25:44 +0200 | Katarushisu1 | (~Katarushi@finc-20-b2-v4wan-169598-cust1799.vm7.cable.virginm.net) (Quit: Ping timeout (120 seconds)) |
| 2024-04-16 04:25:26 +0200 | <geekosaur> | as well as adding control structures |
| 2024-04-16 04:25:08 +0200 | sgarcia | (sgarcia@swarm.znchost.com) |
| 2024-04-16 04:24:59 +0200 | <geekosaur> | mm, right, I at one point had a BASIC preprocessor that did silly things like use an array ZZ as a parameter stack |
| 2024-04-16 04:23:57 +0200 | <c_wraith> | yeah, GOSUB didn't have any idea of parameters. Just global variables. So, recursion wasn't very useful... |
| 2024-04-16 04:23:42 +0200 | <monochrom> | Well, perhaps s/dumb/simpleton/ |
| 2024-04-16 04:23:09 +0200 | <geekosaur> | (stuffed the return address into a register, and $DEITY help you if you overwrote it) |
| 2024-04-16 04:23:06 +0200 | <monochrom> | But BASIC's dumb GOSUB rendered recursion useless. So the claim was right in context. (You need at least parameter passing to make recursion useful.) |
| 2024-04-16 04:22:18 +0200 | <geekosaur> | that one is understandable though, the TMS9900 thought it was a baby IBM mainframe. BALR anyone? |
| 2024-04-16 04:22:13 +0200 | sgarcia_ | (sgarcia@swarm.znchost.com) (Quit: Hosted by www.ZNCHost.com) |
| 2024-04-16 04:21:51 +0200 | <monochrom> | Nah I think kids these days would love to have that card mandated so they don't have to learn recursion. |
| 2024-04-16 04:21:04 +0200 | <jackdk> | kids these days don't know how good they have it. I remember an errata card for TI (99/4A) Extended Basic saying they removed the ability for subroutines to call themselves because "it was occasionally useful but mostly a mistake" |
| 2024-04-16 04:20:26 +0200 | <geekosaur> | I was especially happy to let the compiler deal with that mess |
| 2024-04-16 04:19:53 +0200 | <geekosaur> | nobody had invented floating point coprocessors yet. and when Intel got around to it, it was a sideboard stack machine |
| 2024-04-16 04:19:00 +0200 | <c_wraith> | though it didn't have floating-point hardware, so they were *slow* |
| 2024-04-16 04:18:54 +0200 | <geekosaur> | yeh |
| 2024-04-16 04:18:46 +0200 | <c_wraith> | well. not longs, that hardware didn't have them. But it had integers and floats. |
| 2024-04-16 04:18:40 +0200 | <geekosaur> | I recall it having % but not & |
| 2024-04-16 04:18:16 +0200 | <c_wraith> | that definitely predates VB. It was in the old TRS-80 basic I first learned to program in. |
| 2024-04-16 04:15:40 +0200 | <jackdk> | VB (and maybe others) extended that to avoid having to write `dim i as integer`: you had `%` for ints, `&` for longs, etc. (IIRC) |