Art & Dop: I know WHY those listings lacked comments and long variable names, and were fulla GOTOs. I wrote my first programs on a DEC PDP-8/e. It's just a shock seeing this primieval stuff again.

I mean, jeeze, they apparently didn't have GOSUB statements!

I once co-wrote a commercial program (COLORTROPE, for a D.C. children's museum) in IBM-PC BASICA. 64kb limit. I recall having to overlay-in modules, and putting multiple commands on a line in order to conserve line numbers.

Some of the later BASICs (e.g., QBasic, Turbo Basic) are actually decent languages. I wrote a lot of stuff in them before cracking down and learning C, C++, Java, etc.