[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-14, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Was getting way off topic, so new topic
>
> Time to spam c.o.v
>
>:-)
>

Having compared the two programs, I find the Pascal version to be
a lot more readable and easier to follow than the Basic version,
although Arne does put his begin statements in a strange place... :-)

The Basic version has much more jumping around and just doesn't read
as well as the Pascal version does.

BTW, Basic really does like spewing its special characters onto the
end of variable references. :-)

One thing I was surprised by was the goto and gosub to integer line
numbers instead of looping constructs and named function calls with
parameters as you see in the Pascal example and in other languages
such as C and Ada.

Is that style normal in DEC Basic code ?

Simon.

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