Correct. Many of the concrete arguments from "Goto Considered Harmful" fall apart when you even have named labels rather than line numbers. BASIC can be used to make a mess, but BASIC can also be used to write highly structured programs- you must be dilligent. I haven't written BASIC in years, but personally I think BASIC taught me why structured programming, careful naming and indentation are all vital to creating comprehensible code. Staring down a few thousand lines of your own spaghetti code from months before drives the point home in a very useful way.