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> Who on Earth would rather have to end a function block by typing out "End Sub" instead of a curly brace It’s called BASIC because it’s more approachable to b
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
> Who on Earth would rather have to end a function block by typing out "End Sub" instead of a curly brace
It’s called BASIC because it’s more approachable to beginners. End Sub is not as strange to someone new to programming as a curly brace because it is almost English and less abstract.
- rbanffy 4y agoWhen I first used C I wondered who in their right mind would start and end blocks with a curly brace when Pascal used BEGIN/END and other languages had other nicer and more easily glanceable structure markers.