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by ArnoVW 1592 days ago
Well, many BASICs had GOSUB, which sort of gave you function calls (albeit sans parameters)
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Yes, but that was pretty much it: GOTO, GOSUB, and NEXT. And GOSUB is pretty much useless for building control flow equivalent to while/try/catch/... and even just if/else, or only "if" with more than one statement. NEXT works for only special cases of "for". So, most of the time, GOTO it is...