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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaBASIC on A3000 needs NoFastMem
Message-ID: <263@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 15:50:45 GMT
References: <3348@crash.cts.com> <921.2691c80d@waikato.ac.nz>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <921.2691c80d@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>
>AND before all you basic freaks :) flame me, basic won't be structured until
>it has everything a good Algol type language has, and then it won't be basic
>any more. A language that will let you jump (ie GOTO) out of a loop, at any
>time, to anywhere you like is a bad language. (Please don't include assembler
>here! 8)

Ah, you didn't see Real World Algol 60 programs, did you? They have GOTO's
and they damned well jump just into loops and blocks like hell. Things
I would never dare to do in any other language (safe Assembler). I speak
about official numerical subroutines for polynomial equations provided
by our university, source of these programs unknown to me.

In fact, it *IS* possible to write AmigaBasic sources of >50 KB with 
*NO* GOTO (though that leads to use of MANY additional flag variables
and such stuff). It always depends on the person using a language
whether it will be structured in the end or not. I believe you can do
fully unreadable coding in Pascal, and clearly structured Basic with
many GOTO's on the other side.
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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel      //     E-Mail to 
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