[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/14/2021 2:06 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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... :-)

No no. The right 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. :-)

Those suffixes are not requires so if one is programming in Pascal
in Basic, then one does not need them.

What one has to do if one is programming in Basic in Basic I better
let Dave answer.

> 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 ?

Arne