[XP] Code Complete: Things were Scary Back Then

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri Mar 29 17:08:53 EST 2002


David Brady wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Hansen [mailto:peter at engcorp.com]
> >
> > I don't remember any of the BASICs that I used,
> > whether Apple II, PET, C-64, MS, or other having modules 

> I did this a lot.  There was no enforcement of
> "modules" in BASIC, but you could still do modular
> programming.  You only had the one big program to work
> with, but you mentally divided it up into sections.

Well, I used reserved blocks of line numbers in the same
way, but I'd hardly deign to call that "making a module".

And I didn't call the use of GOTO "sending a method to
another object" either.  ;-)

-Peter



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