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

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