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# Programming by Procedure

In ARCHIVE the only obvious decision making command is: IF … ELSE … ENDIF. It works as you would expect it to work in SuperBASIC, but ENDIF is always required. It must also do the work of SELect. There is no THEN. Instead use a colon.