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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 20:48:45 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:   
      
   > That was the reason stated when I started BASIC Programming (1985'ish   
   > .... O./K., so I was a late comer!!) "Number the Lines 10, 20, 30, etc,   
   > so, if you need to add a bit extra, there were all those other line   
   > numbers to use!!"   
      
   Some of us went by hundreds.   
      
   BASIC was designed as an integral part of an interactive timeshared system   
   for students and staff to use at Dartmouth. Line numbers served two   
   purposes: one as target labels for GOTOs, the other for ordering lines in   
   the editor.   
      
   Both uses are now obsolete.   
      
   By the way, did you have some kind of line-renumbering utility in your   
   BASIC system? That would also fix up GOTOs to correctly branch to the   
   renumbered lines.   
      
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