When I got my very first introduction to computers and programming as a middle schoolkid in the early 90s India ... I got home the set of textbooks for BASIC p

When I got my very first introduction to computers and programming as a middle schoolkid in the early 90s India ... I got home the set of textbooks for BASIC programming language from the institute -- the classes had not yet started. So I knew next to zero about programming and barely touched a computer. I sat down and read through the books. They were all well-written and most of it made sense (whatever I could make sense of -- having never written a program before) All commands seemed to have some logical names : LET, IF ... THEN ..ELSE, FOR, PRINT, INPUT, etc. But one command stumped me. GOTO. I was not a native speaker of English and wondered if it is an obscure english word. (My mind defaulted to sounding it as a single word, "lotto" with a G) I read the explanation and that sounded okayish -- make the program execution jump to a line number specified after the GOTO command. But what the hell was "GOTO" -- why did they name it that -- I had no clue. It took embarassingly long for me to realize that it was a rare command (the only one perhaps?) in BASIC language that is not a single English word but simply a combination of the simple words 'go' and 'to' :) So I have a special place in my heart for this command :)