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BASIC was a 1965 language. The interactive language that preceded it and was a shade better, was Joss, which ran on the Johnniac. Joss used line numbers.
by lucas_membrane 4y ago
BASIC was a 1965 language. The interactive language that preceded it and was a shade better, was Joss, which ran on the Johnniac. Joss used line numbers.
- ForOldHack 4y agohttps://dbpedia.org/page/JOSS https://dbpedia.org/page/JOSS "It pioneered many features that would become common in languages from the 1960s into the 1980s, including use of line numbers as both editing instructions and targets for branches, statements predicated by boolean decisions, and a built-in source-code editor that can perform instructions in direct or immediate mode, what they termed a conversational user interface."