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My first language was Locomotive Basic 1.1 on an Amstrad 6128. The best thing about it was the huge manual that came with it. Not only did it have FOR/NEXT but

My first language was Locomotive Basic 1.1 on an Amstrad 6128. The best thing about it was the huge manual that came with it. Not only did it have FOR/NEXT but also WHILE/WEND and the interesting ON x GOTO y1,y2..yn where x was anything that evaluated to an integer and the y's were line numbers.

ikari_pl 3y ago
that manual was my favorite book when I was a kid! it taught everything. Computers in general, programming, two languages, two OSes!