October 7, 2007 12:24 PM
Strictly speaking, I didn't post a sequence that I expected would be keyed verbatim.
I posted command options for entering various modes and statements like
"Once in a program mode."
As my professors used to be fond of saying...
"The rest is intuitively obvious, and left as an excercise for the student..."
I've always preferred a good command reference to a "how to" book. The latter is good for your first time coding something by blindly following commands. The former is better if you want to actually learn all the capabilities of a language.
Then again, after a quarter century of programming, I'm not sure I could write one from scratch. I always pick up a previous piece of working code, and start from there. That's where the command reference comes in. For decoding old calls and figuring out what other options are available.
ScottE -- Member (always) & Moderator (when needed)