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Not quite - line numbers were also the text editor.
by gress 12y ago
Not quite - line numbers were also the text editor.
- david-given 12y agoThey actually make for quite a decent IDE --- it's a really cheap and easy way to allow arbitrary insertion at any point without needing the complexity of a full text editor. You really need a RENUMBER command, though (which BBC Basic had) or else you sometimes find yourself unable to subdivide numbers.