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

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  1. MiroslavPokorny · · focus · HN ↗
    Basic died because it lacks scoping, and has no locals. This makes doing anything on a large scale a pain...
    1. pjmlp · · 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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