Correct. Many of the concrete arguments from "Goto Considered Harmful" fall apart when you even have named labels rather than line numbers. BASIC can be used to

Correct. Many of the concrete arguments from "Goto Considered Harmful" fall apart when you even have named labels rather than line numbers. BASIC can be used to make a mess, but BASIC can also be used to write highly structured programs- you must be dilligent. I haven't written BASIC in years, but personally I think BASIC taught me why structured programming, careful naming and indentation are all vital to creating comprehensible code. Staring down a few thousand lines of your own spaghetti code from months before drives the point home in a very useful way.