09-16-2022, 05:09 PM
Line numbers would drive folks bats on those older systems like TI. I used to do write mine by the 20s, so I could insert lines later, if needed. My friend used to just keep rewriting his code. Argh, poor guy. I recall GOTO was a main tool back then, as subs and functions were not in existence. No labels, either. Speaking of pasta programming, weird that some languages used "POP" to get the user out of a GOSUB. POP would act as a fake RETURN and unstack the stack. With a POP POP here and a POP POP there. Steve McNeill had some code, 1-0-1-0-0-0... Sorry, I get carried away sometimes, often in a tight white jacket. It's probably due to writing all those line numbers back in the 1980's. That, or maybe it was something to do with all those controlled substances in the 70's.
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