[Gllug] Logo as a first language

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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Steve Nelson mused:
> Maybe I was well taught (my grandfather was a CompSci lecturer) and
> maybe I was lucky to own a BBC, but BBC BASIC never empahsised GOTO. 
> It had a nice procedure calling method (PROC / ENDPROC), user
> definable functions and subroutines.  I was always taught to structure
> programs properly and I can't think of any occasions when I had a need
> for GOTO.

BBC BASIC was hardly BASIC at all: it was rather more powerful.

(But even it was beaten hollow by QL SuperBASIC.)


Bring back JOSS, I say, the language BASIC was meant to be.

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