Thanks, Alan. Very helpful; tho' I probably need to gigest Steven's information before I fully digest yours.
On Tuesday 23 August 2011 01:15:52 Alan Gauld wrote: > So sub-routine comers from the world of assembler programming and was > adopted by BASIC because BASIC was invented back in the 1960's when most > folks were used to assembler. So _that's_ why I understand it. It is many years since I did any programmimg at all, but way back before the ark I did a bit of programming in both Basic and machine code. (And I mean machine code, not assembler.) Lisi _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor