Re: Why use Basic at all? (was Re: BASIC with built-in matrix functions?)

On Aug 26, 12:35 am, "Tom Lake" <tl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> It's in the de jure (ANSI/ISO) standard for BASIC, not the de facto
> standard.

I know you would wish it to be otherwise, but the ANSI/ISO BASIC
standards are as irrelevant to this discussion as they are to any
other.  In any case I doubt that the 1978 standard, which is the only
one which might apply to a discussion of BASIC's 'fundamentals',
included any looping constructs other than FOR...NEXT, did it?

The BASIC I am most involved with and know most about was originally
developed in 1981.  At that time FOR...NEXT was the only looping
structure in most BASICs; BBC BASIC was one of the first to add
anything else (REPEAT...UNTIL, and later WHILE...ENDWHILE).

When did any other kind of loop first appear in a Microsoft BASIC?

Richard.
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