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BASIC is the acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code which is a programming language developed in 1964.

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How does BASIC locate an out-of-order NEXT statement when the loop body is skipped

I don't have a copy of the specification for one of these ancient BASIC interpreters in front of me (it may not even exist), but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the BASIC interpreter will not … This is evident in the "NEXT without FOR" error message; the BASIC interpreter rejects any NEXT for which it did not find a corresponding FOR. …
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