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submitted 6 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The first time I tried another programming language, I was confused as to how to write code without using GOTO.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Some dialects of BASIC had more structured control flow.