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BBC Basic (from 1981) let you mix 6502 assembly in your code.

But you had to have line numbers and this caused me a bit of a headache when I got to learn Pascal. Things just seemed to be floating around. Which is funny, because Perl is now my weapon of choice.




Ha! I'm glad I'm not the only one that found the lack of line numbers disturbing (I also went from BASIC to Pascal). It just felt weird - mostly because I hadn't yet got my head around not using GOTOs. Once I got how functions worked though, there was no looking back.

There's a very good emulator of my original computer available online: http://compucolor.org/emu/ccemu.html

It boots you straight into the BASIC REPL. There are still games that I can write from memory for that thing :D




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