> BBC BASIC […] had both named sub-procedures and named functions […]
OK, sounds great. I also remember the versions of Basic on the Amiga and Atari ST being perfectly adequate in this regard.
But this is never the version of Basic which people talk about! What you describe is not the version of Basic used by all those listings in magazines, or in the linked article. This is, for all intents and purposes, not the “80s style Basic” which everybody remembers with such apparent and baffling fondness.
OK, sounds great. I also remember the versions of Basic on the Amiga and Atari ST being perfectly adequate in this regard.
But this is never the version of Basic which people talk about! What you describe is not the version of Basic used by all those listings in magazines, or in the linked article. This is, for all intents and purposes, not the “80s style Basic” which everybody remembers with such apparent and baffling fondness.