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Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

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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.

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