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BASIC variables are typed. BASIC was also originally designed for printing terminals, so there was no 24 line limit. Modern BASICs are suitable for writing lar

• WalterBright 1y ago
  The BASIC I used was BASIC-10 on the PDP-10 in the 70's. It wasn't much improved over the original. The 24 line thing was a limitation of the glass tty, not BASIC.
  • musicale 1y ago
    Having functions that fit on one screen is still a good idea I think. My point was that printing, teletype-style terminals don't have an intrinsic vertical space limit like video display terminals (and eventually the printouts can get quite long). But now that I think about it, perhaps the designers of BASIC might have been thinking of making it easy for a beginner to spend an afternoon or two learning how to write something comparable to a short FORTRAN program that might fit on a small deck of 80 column (72 with sequence number) punched cards.