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Original source downloaded [from Vintage Basic](http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html)
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Conversion to [Perl](https://www.perl.org/)
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There are two version of the code here, a "faithful" translation (basketball-orig.pl) and
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a "modern" translation (basketball.pl). The main difference between the 2 are is that the
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faithful translation has 3 GOTOs in it while the modern version has no GOTO. I have added
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a "TIME" print when the score is shown so the Clock is visible. Halftime is at "50" and
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end of game is at 100 (per the Basic code).
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The 3 GOTOs in the faitful version are because of the way the original code jumped into
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the "middle of logic" that has no obivious way to avoid ... that I can see, at least while
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still maintaining something of the look and structure of the original Basic.
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The modern version avoided the GOTOs by restructuring the program in the 2 "play()" subs.
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Despite the change, this should play the same way as the faithful version.
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All of the percentages remain the same. If writing this from scratch, we really should
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have only a single play() sub which uses the same code for both teams, which would also
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make the game more fair ... but that wasn't done so the percent edge to Darmouth has been
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maintained here.
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