On: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

[cure_42]

Windows batch, no?

[tialaramex → cure_42]

COMMAND.COM in its batch mode? Kinda, sorta. The interpreter can AIUI "call" other files but the "goto" is restricted to the same file.

So we can jump over a variable declaration which is pretty confusing, but we can't jump into unrelated code.

Also while COMMAND.COM can't be as old as BASIC it must be pretty old.