When I was in high school, I wrote lots of stuff in BASICA and spent long hours with printouts spread over the floor, tracing through GOTOs to figure out what w

When I was in high school, I wrote lots of stuff in BASICA and spent long hours with printouts spread over the floor, tracing through GOTOs to figure out what was going wrong. I'd seen articles about "structured programming" and felt it would stifle my creativity. One dad Dad brought home Turbo Pascal. To try it out I implemented Conway's Game of Life. Once I got past my syntax errors, I was shocked when it worked correctly the very first time. I never wrote another line of BASICA.