Comic taken from the book Thinking Forth.
Click the comic to see it in its original context.
(If you’re wondering why someone would GOTO a number, it’s likely that you’re too young to have worked with versions of BASIC that required line numbers. Consider yourself very, very, very lucky.)
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My gosh Joey…. now I really feel old!
BASIC is like one big love, starts as something crazy and never ends. GOTO 1.
That’s funny. :-)
I remember learning BASIC back in the mid 80s…
Young? hmm… well, 10 years ago they were teaching basic with line numbers at my high school.
oh no… I’m old!
I’m 20 now. When I was 10 or so I had a little v-tech play laptop that had basic. Sadly, v-tech has the feature no longer.
I learned BASIC in 1981!
I’m really feelin’ old!
gud one.. lucky enough to use basic only for a short time.. :)
I miss GOTO! Come back!