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by whynotmaybe 190 days ago
> difference between functions and subroutines.

Waitaminit, is that why we have "sub" in Visual Basic ?
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dhosek 190 days ago
Pascal also distinguishes between functions and subroutines (procedures)
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thatjoeoverthr 190 days ago
Yes! QBasic also, IIRC.
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adzm 190 days ago
it was a great improvement over GOSUB... which i probably have not thought about in forever
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auraham 189 days ago
I was about to mention that.
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