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   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 6/03/2025 1:18 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Hmm!! Probably O.T. but the 'Dartmouth' you mention .... was that   
   Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia or was that somewhere in U.K.?? Or   
   elsewhere??   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   "line-renumbering utility"?? One's mind, maybe. ;-P   
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   Daniel70   
      
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