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> difference between functions and subroutines.

Waitaminit, is that why we have "sub" in Visual Basic ?

Pascal also distinguishes between functions and subroutines (procedures)

Yes! QBasic also, IIRC.

it was a great improvement over GOSUB... which i probably have not thought about in forever

I was about to mention that.

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