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> where you have 26 of them, they are single letter prefixes to files and not hierarchical ADFS supported hierarchical directories with name limits the same as
by dspillett 6y ago
> where you have 26 of them, they are single letter prefixes to files and not hierarchical
ADFS supported hierarchical directories with name limits the same as files (IIRC 10 characters?).
Sounds like you are thinking of the earlier DFS.
> hard to unlearn line numbers
That seems odd. Where was your sticking point with them?
I started out with BBC BASIC, eventually with a little 6502 assembly for a few bits & bobs, and had no trouble at all seeing the benefit of dropping that bit of structure when I started tinkering with QuickBasic and then C on a PC.
In fact if you had a BBC machine new enough to support ADFS, then you had one with a BBC BASIC version that supported procedures and functions in a way that allowed line numbers to be effectively ignored (no GOTO/GOSUB needed) in many cases. In fact there were methods to write without them (write the code in a text editor, like the one built in to the Master series, I forget its name, then TYPE it from the file to "add" the line numbers for the interpreter to like).