> From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Davd Brin wrote: > > > I will not jiunx myself with overconfidence. But at > > first glance it is everything I was looking for in a > > simple BASIC interpreter that works turnkey, > > accompanied by a tutorial that was written for human > > brains. > > You know, don't you, David, that GOTO is considered harmful[1]? > > Promise you won't let them use GOTO. Please, for the sake of the children.
The problem is that it's very likely some if not most of his old Basic examples used goto's. Furthermore I don't think Dr. brin is a good enough programmer to rewrite the code without using the goto's. Furthermore if the Good Dr. is really interested in teaching his child about this stuff, I'd stick with Visual Basic 6 (I'm sure theirs nearly unlimited amounts of program examples for VB 6 you can find with google). As they say garbage in, garbage out. Teaching a child the joys of using goto tends to fall into that category. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
