10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

20 GOTO 10

Thanks for coming in for an interview on such short notice. We're understaffed and need to hire software developers ASAP.

My first question: if I ask you to start work on a new application, what is your GOTO programming language?

Great question! I would use either Rust or TypeScript.

Wrong! Neither of those support GOTO. Acceptable answers were BASIC, Pascal, or Fortran. I'm sorry. Please see yourself out.

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People who learned programming in the last 10 years might not even know what a GOTO is. Before structured programming took off in the 1970's, it was more widely used in languages like BASIC and Fortran. I was still taught it in the 80's, but it is rarely, if ever, seen today.

However, you can write Fortran in any language.

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