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Why weredid old BasicsBASICs (and maybe other languages) usinguse line numbers as part of the source code?
I mean, what problems did it (try to) solve?
Why were old Basics (and maybe other languages) using line numbers as part of the source code?
Why did old BASICs (and maybe other languages) use line numbers as part of the source code?