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Article #538Re: Being a consultant
From: Jeff Dalton
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1989 14:31
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1989 14:31
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In article <211@voa3.UUCP> ck@voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern) writes: >[He was typing BASIC statements into his command interpreter (shell).] > >Thus has it been since the Dawn of BASIC. This type of "problem" was >not uncommon when I first started programming in BASIC at Dartmouth in >1965 (although, naturally, I don't remember ever being guilty of such a >solecism myself). When I was at Dartmouth in the 70's, line number based editing was implemented by the shell (more or less), and all of the compilers could handle files that had line numbers. (Only Basic let you use the numbers as statement labels, though.) So it was very easy to create a file or edit one, without having to learn a lot of editing commands. And the line numbers could be stripped off if you didn't want to keep them. -- Jeff
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff From: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Being a consultant Message-ID: <769@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 21 Aug 89 14:31:13 GMT References: <5595@ficc.uu.net> <6221@hubcap.clemson.edu> <166@bbxeng.UUCP> <5778@ficc.uu.net> <211@voa3.UUCP> Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 17