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>BASIC lets you go to a line number

QBasic let you use either a line number or a label, I believe they only kept line numbers after labels were introduced for backwards compatibility.

I know I'm veering way off topic but for as much disdain as BASICs receive, I really do feel like coding up a simple game was much easier for teenage-me in QBasic than it was in Python with pygame, for whatever reason.

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I think a lot of people have reported having that experience, and I think it's been deeply under-investigated by programming language researchers.

My first programming experience was QBASIC. Even if it's not a good programming pattern, I think GOTO is a great way to let a novice programmer "discover" the idea of loops and functions for themselves. Although it's error prone, it's still very intuitive for someone with no programming background.

QBasic is actually a really awesome language, I am bummed I didn't embrace it like I should have. I ended up going C/C++ ... Perl ... Python.

I wasted a lot of time with C/C++, if I had immersed myself in QBasic, I would have better actualized myself.

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