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1. MiroslavPokorny · 1791079576 · focus · HN ↗

   Basic died because it lacks scoping, and has no locals. This makes doing anything on a large scale a pain...

   1. jasomill · 1791081240 · focus · HN ↗

      Structured BASIC dialects have function-local variables, BASIC dialects that support linking separately compiled modules support exported and non-exported variables, etc.
   2. mdp2021 · 1791095509 · focus · HN ↗

      That's original Basic. Recreations are more complete.
   3. pjmlp · 1791101886 · focus · HN ↗

      Structured BASIC was already the way in CP/M, Vax,MS-DOS, Amiga, and even Dartmouth BASIC evolved to support structured programming.

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