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First, check out what mixed nuts said:


> 
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> > In comp.lang.java.programmer Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> wrote:
> > (snip, someone wrote)
> > 
> >>>Wow, even the name is pointlessly abbreviated to be missing one vowel. 
> >>>Does it date back to when machines had a few KB of core and even one 
> >>>byte of extra computer code could be a storage problem?
> > 
> >>Of course not. Not that that would have been an excuse even so. The old 
> >>Commodore VIC-20 had a BASIC interpreter and that language had full, 
> >>readable keywords like PRINT rather than abbreviated garbage like, say, 
> >>PRN. Commodore employed a clever trick: BASIC programs were stored (on 
> >>disk and in memory) *compressed*, with all of the common keywords 
> >>replaced with graphics characters with the high bit set. 
> > 
> > The HP TSB2000 (Time Shared BASIC) systems did that, too.
> > 
> > Not only that, it would refuse to allow you to enter a statement
> > that didn't pass some syntax checks. 
> > 
> > Many of the microcomputer BASIC interpreters were based on 
> > the ones from Microsoft, but even if not, the tokenizing compression
> > was well known by then. 
> > 
> > Not only does it save memory, but the interpreter runs a lot faster!
> > The tokenizing is done only once, not each time the statement
> > is executed.
> > 
> 
> You can make BASIC programs run lots faster if you delete comments and 
> replace the GOSUBes with GOTOes

You think that's fast, try replacing the BOBOS with GAZONGAS.  That's not 
even in the manual!

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