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\chapterprecishere{``Begin at the beginning'', the King said gravely, ``and go on till you come to the end: then stop.''\par\raggedleft --- \textup{Lewis Carroll, } Alice in Wonderland}
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We'll begin at the beginning; how beginning? This:
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 PRINT 2+2
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run
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4
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Ok
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\end{lstlisting}
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Oh \emph{boy} we just did a computation! It printed out \code{4} which is a correct answer for $2+2$ and it didn't crash!
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\section[GOTO]{GOTO here and there}
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\code{GOTO} is used a lot in BASIC, and so does in \tbas. \code{GOTO} is a simplest method of diverging a program flow: execute only the some part of the program conditionally and perform a loop.
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Following program attempts to calculate a square root of the input value, showing how \code{GOTO} can be used in such manner.
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 X = 1337
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20 Y = 0.5 * X
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30 Z = Y
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40 Y = Y-(((Y^2)-X)/(2*Y))
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50 IF Z <> Y THEN GOTO 30
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100 PRINT "Square root of ";X;" is approximately ";Y
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\end{lstlisting}
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Here, \code{GOTO} in line 50 to perform a loop, which keep loops until \code{Z} and \code{Y} becomes equal. This is a newtonian method of approximating a square root.
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\section[When GOTO Is Bad]{Severe Acute Spaghettification Syndrome}
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\section[Subroutine with GOSUB]{GOSUB to the rescue!}
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\section[FOR--NEXT Loop]{FOR ever loop NEXT}
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So you can make a loop using \code{GOTO}s here and there, but they \emph{totally suck}, too much spaphetti crashes your cerebral cortex faster than \emph{Crash Bandicoot 2}. Fortunately, there's better way to go about that: the FOR--NEXT loop!
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 FOR I = 1 TO 20
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20 PRINT SPC(20-I);
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30 FOR J = 1 TO I*2-1
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40 PRINT "*";
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50 NEXT:PRINT
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60 NEXT
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\end{lstlisting}
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When executed, this program print out triangles of stars. Still not convinced? Try to write a same program with \code{GOTO}s.
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\section[Get User INPUT]{Isn't It Nice To Have a Computer That Will Question You?}
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What fun is the program if it won't talk with you? You can make that happen with \code{INPUT} statement.
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME";
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20 INPUT NAME
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30 PRINT "HELLO, ";NAME
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\end{lstlisting}
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This short program will ask your name, and then it will greet you by the name you told to the computer.
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\section[Function]{Function}
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Consider the following code:
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\begin{lstlisting}
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(code with many repeating phrases)
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\end{lstlisting}
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As you can clearly see, it has way too many repeating phrase: \code{i'm redundant!} Would it be nice to tidy it up, but much cooler and in \emph{one-liner}?
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Lo and behold, the \code{DEFUN}! You can define a \emph{function} in a single line using it, and it even re-names the variable so you don't have to worry about unintended name collisions like when you were playing with \code{GOSUB}s!
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\begin{lstlisting}
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(same code but better)
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\end{lstlisting}
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\section[Recursion]{BRB: Bad Recursion BRB: Bad Recursion BRB: Bad Recursion BRB: Bad RecursionBRB: Bad Recursion BRBRangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded}
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But don't get over-excited, as it's super-trivial to create unintentional infinite loop:
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 DEFUN FAC(N)=N*FAC(N-1)
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20 FOR K=1 TO 6
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30 PRINT FAC(K)
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40 NEXT
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\end{lstlisting}
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(if you tried this and computer becomes unresponsive, hit Ctrl-C to terminate the execution)
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This failed attempt is to create a function that calculates a factorial of \code{N}. It didn't work because there is no \emph{halting condition}: didn't told computer to when to escape from the loop.
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$n \times 1$ is always $n$, and $0!$ is $1$, so it would be nice to break out of the loop when \code{N} reaches $0$; here is the modified program:
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 DEFUN FAC(N)=IF N==0 THEN 1 ELSE N*FAC(N-1)
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20 FOR K=1 TO 10
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30 PRINT FAC(K)
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40 NEXT
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\end{lstlisting}
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Since \code{IF-THEN-ELSE} can be chained to make third or more conditions --- \code{IF-THEN-ELSE IF-THEN} or something --- we can write a recursive Fibonacci function:
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 DEFUN FIB(N)=IF N==0 THEN 0 ELSE IF N==1 THEN 1 ELSE FIB(N-1)+FIB(N-2)
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20 FOR K=1 TO 10
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30 PRINT FIB(K);" ";
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40 NEXT
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\end{lstlisting}
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\section[MAPping]{Map}
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\code{MAP} is a \emph{higher-order}\footnote{Higher-order function is a function that takes another function as an argument.} function that takes a function (called \emph{transformation}) and an array to construct a new array that contains old array transformed with given \emph{transformation}.
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Or, think about the old \code{FAC} program before: it only printed out the value of $1!$, $2!$ \ldots\ $10!$. What if we wanted to build an array that contains such values?
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 DEFUN FAC(N)=IF N==0 THEN 1 ELSE N*FAC(N-1)
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20 K=MAP(FAC, 1 TO 10)
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30 PRINT K
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\end{lstlisting}
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Here, \code{K} will contain the values of $1!$, $2!$ \ldots\ $10!$. We're just printing out the array, but you can make acutual use out of the array.
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\section[Currying]{Haskell Curry Wants to Know Your Location}
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\label{currying101}
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So what the fsck is currying? Consider the following code:
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 DEFUN F(K,T)=ABS(T)==K
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20 CF=F<~32
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30 PRINT CF(24) : REM will print 'false'
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40 PRINT CF(-32) : REM will print 'true'
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\end{lstlisting}
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% NOTE: you can't use \basiccurry within \code{}
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Here, \code{CF} is a curried function of \code{F}; built-in operator \code{$<\!\sim$} applies \code{32} to the first parameter of the function \code{F}, which dynamically returns a \emph{function} of \code{CF(T) = ABS(T) == 32}. The fact that Curry Operator returns a \emph{function} opens many possibilities, for example, you can create loads of sibling functions without making loads of duplicate codes.
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\section[Wrapping-Up]{The Grand Unification}
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Using all the knowledge we have learned, it should be trivial\footnote{/s} to write a Quicksort function in \tbas, like this:
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\begin{lstlisting}
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10 DEFUN LESS(P,X)=X<P
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11 DEFUN GTEQ(P,X)=X>=P
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12 DEFUN QSORT(XS)=IF LEN(XS)<1 THEN NIL ELSE
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QSORT(FILTER(LESS<~HEAD(XS),TAIL(XS))) # HEAD(XS)!NIL #
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QSORT(FILTER(GTEQ<~HEAD(XS),TAIL(XS)))
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100 L=7!9!4!5!2!3!1!8!6!NIL
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110 PRINT L
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120 PRINT QSORT(L)
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\end{lstlisting}
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Line 12 implements quicksort algorithm, using \code{LESS} and \code{GTEQ} as helper functions. \code{LESS} is a user-function version of less-than operator, and \code{GTEQ} is similar. \code{QSORT} selects a pivot by taking the head-element of the array \code{XS}\footnote{stands for \emph{X's}} with \code{HEAD(XS)}, then utilises curried version of \code{LESS} and \code{GTEQ} to move lesser-than-pivot values to the left and greater to the right (the head element itself does not get recursed, here \code{TAIL(XS)} is applied to make head-less copy of the array), and these two separated \emph{chunks} are recursively sorted using the same \code{QSORT} function. Currying is exploited to give comparison functions a pivot-value to compare against, and also because \code{FILTER} wants a \emph{function} and not an \emph{expression}. \code{HEAD(XS)!NIL} creates a single-element array contains head-element of the \code{XS}.
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%Uncomment this if you finally decided to support a closure%
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%% Using \emph{closure}, the definition of \code{QSORT} can truly be a one-liner and be \emph{even more cryptic}:
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%%
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%% \begin{lstlisting}
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%% 10 QSORT=[XS]~>IF LEN(XS)<1 THEN NIL ELSE
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%% QSORT(FILTER([K]~>K<HEAD XS,TAIL XS)) # HEAD(XS)!NIL #
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%% QSORT(FILTER([K]~>K>=HEAD XS,TAIL XS))
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%% \end{lstlisting}
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