On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 08:38 -0600, haliphax wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 09:15, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> I remember the internals debate about 2 or 3 years ago. I was on the pro > >> goto side... it does have uses when used properly. > > > > I wholeheartedly concur. The first programming language I taught > > myself was BASIC about 23 years ago. We may never see the inclusion > > of GOSUB in PHP, but GOTO is certainly worthwhile. > > > > > > Side note: I wrote a BASIC interpreter in PHP about two weeks ago. > > Talk about fond memories. > > QuickBasic (actually QBasic, and then later QuickBasic when my mom > shelled out the money for me to buy it) was my first language. I > remember being completely flabbergasted when I found out they packaged > an interpreter with DOS, and it had been under my nose the whole time. > I think my first "finished" program was a D&D character generator. > Basically, just colored and formatted text with the output of 6 or so > random number generations. > > Meeeeeemoriiiieeeeees... :D I did Basic on the TRS-80 and saved my programs to a big clunky audio tape drive... 1... 2... 3... queue Tedd with rocks :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
