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  • (Score: 2) by Revek on Friday May 25 2018, @07:53PM (5 children)

    by Revek (5022) on Friday May 25 2018, @07:53PM (#684172)

    since you invariably needed 11,12 and 13 to fix something.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:55PM (4 children)

    by isostatic (365) on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:55PM (#687808) Journal

    I think BBC BASIC had "renumber", which when executed changed all those "10,11,12,13" commands to "10,20,30,40", updating the gotos as it went along

    • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday June 06 2018, @04:28AM (2 children)

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @04:28AM (#689161) Homepage Journal

      I am not a savage who would use anything beside Turbo Basic.

      Oh those were the joyful days...

    • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:06PM

      by Dr Spin (5239) on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:06PM (#694053)

      BBC BASIC had "renumber", which when executed changed all those "10,11,12,13" commands to "10,20,30,40", updating the gotos as it went along

      I KNOW the BASIC on Multics had that in 1973. I am not aware of a BASIC that didn't (I was writing BASIC and Fortran professionally on Multics in 1973).

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