Ha! Yes, I only had the reference manual and some (published by photocopying matrix printed writing) magazines to work with begin 80s as a kid and I remember m

Ha! Yes, I only had the reference manual and some (published by photocopying matrix printed writing) magazines to work with begin 80s as a kid and I remember making goto’s jump forward and then when done backward; some older guy at a meetup (I was the youngest for many years there) told me to check out gosub; that suddenly clicked after that. At first I thought they were just inconvenient goto’s. I guess my relationship between that time and j/k is that I really like the concept of just needing a (printed!) reference manual and being able to do everything you need. It is so liberating (for me anyway); it is also the reason why I like embedded asm/c programming: mostly I need nothing but the reference manual (and after all these years, not that even). To me it makes other types of work (web frontend/backend or native apps) with all their (unstable) libs tedious to work with; I am good at those (esp native apps) but I don’t really enjoy it as much.