09-16-2022, 04:38 PM
The Texas Instruments cartridge BASIC, if I remember from the book I read, for "IF... THEN" allowed only a line number right after "THEN", and therefore encouraged spaghetti code. It didn't support colon anywhere neither. Timex Sinclair also didn't like colons but at least it enabled "K" cursor right after "THEN" was keyed in, so "GOTO" was required but almost anything else like "GOSUB", "PRINT" etc. The British computer also allowed graphic characters typed in directly into a string literal to "PRINT", something I deeply wished my Tandy Color Computer 3 was able.