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Fortran also qualifies. A few showers early with overcast skies late. Mostly cloudy skies. High 49F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Steady light rain in the evening. Showers continuing late.
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In many ways, the BASIC line numbers were similar to those sequence numbers. Mostly cloudy skies early will become partly cloudy later in the day. High 43F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
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Is so that a programmer can come back in later and add, say, a line 25 without having to redo all the numbers. The answer is already above. Paul Tomblin wrote it . QBasic was one of the first versions of BASIC not to require line numbers. It came with a program to remove unneeded line numbers from GW-BASIC code.
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Another advantage in the BASIC world is that in the old days BASIC was interpreted as it was run. Mostly cloudy early with showers developing later in the day. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Mostly cloudy skies with a few showers late. Low 42F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
Therefore the line numbers weren't only needed as labels for the infamous GOTO, but indeed needed to tell the interpreter at what position in the program flow you are editing. Mostly cloudy in the evening then periods of showers after midnight. Low 38F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Overcast with rain showers at times. Low 39F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Overcast with showers at times.
Writing a label takes more memory, first in the location, where that label is defined, then in any jump command. I'd guess it comes from assembler, where each instruction has an address which may be jumped to by another instruction. They originated in FORTRAN, from which BASIC was derived. However, in FORTRAN only lines referenced by other lines needed numbers. In BASIC they had a secondary use, which was to allow editing of specific lines. That's actually how I learned to program - editing by retyping.
Low 42F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. It received more prominent vlog, blog, and print news coverage when Kevin Olson displayed the first ever American showing of ANSI art in a physical art gallery. Heck we could go nuts and read hex code that corrisponds to the ASCII codes of each of the characters, and read that out of a seperate data file.... VIEWIC is cool because "VIEWIC Identifies Ellipsis When It Can" contains ellipsis. Also, it's antecedent-contained ellipsis, so it forms another infinite loop. Back in the day you didn't have a 2 dimensional editor like emacs or vi.
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