Re: Re: re:Re: programming by hand

Smoke wrote:

>must be a pretty poor program if it can find a "go to" point
>to reach the sub routine!

Smoke,

This is like saying that a PASCAL or C compiler is a bad program
because it requires variables to be "declared" prior to use!

AND, MANY "interpreter" type computer programs (especially older
ones) require subroutines to be defined (read found) before use. This
is due to the line by line method of the interpreter. It was common
practice in the old days to put the subs at the beginning of a
program listing. Nowadays, as others have mentioned, they are later
in the listing, or even separate. Remember when MS made this change
in their BASIC interpreter(s)?

So it's not really about an inability to "find" it, as it is
an "expectation of WHERE to find it".

Hope this helps.

Ballendo

P.S. Can you remember when 4K (thats 4 KILOBYTES!) was LOTS of
memory? (especially in a machine control!)