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It's worth noting that those languages, like 6502 assembly language and early BASIC, had very little in the way of syntax, and particularly, no block structures
by tokenrove 11y ago
It's worth noting that those languages, like 6502 assembly language and early BASIC, had very little in the way of syntax, and particularly, no block structures. I remember finding details of syntax in Pascal and C incredibly cumbersome, learning them as a kid after a considerable amount of time with BASIC and assembly.
- digi_owl 11y agoEcho that. I recall programming up a ASCII "game" of sorts using basic on a school computer years ago. Whole lot of those infamous gotos etc. But i don't know if i could produce anything even close in C or similar unless it wrote it all as one big hairball inside main(). Edit: Frankly i think we humans are inherently sequential thinkers. Especially when trying to describe how to do something in detail. So when trying to deal with non-sequential systems we sooner or later make a mess of things.